{"entity":{"id":"martha-ingram","kind":"person","name":"Martha Rivers Ingram","aka":["E. Bronson Ingram","Ingram family"],"tldr":"In 1999 the Ingram family made what Vanderbilt calls a transformational gift in honour of the late E. Bronson Ingram; the centre took the family's name and became Tennessee's leading cancer research centre.","summary":"Martha Rivers Ingram (1935-2026) chaired Ingram Industries after the death of her husband E. Bronson Ingram in 1995 and became one of the largest donors in Vanderbilt University's history. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's history records that in 1999 Nashville's Ingram family made a transformational gift in honour of the late E. Bronson Ingram, philanthropist, businessman and civic leader; formally named the E. Bronson Ingram Cancer Center at Vanderbilt University, it quickly became known as the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The centre is an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre and the only one in Tennessee, with programmes in cancer genomics, immunotherapy and the health of rural and underserved populations across the mid-South.","asOf":"2026-09-10","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Rivers_Ingram","links":[{"label":"Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center: history","url":"https://www.vicc.org/about/history"}],"tags":["hero","donor"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["vanderbilt-ingram"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-funding-allocation"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Businesswoman whose family's 1999 gift named Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in memory of E. Bronson Ingram","specialisms":["Cancer centre building","Family philanthropy"],"profiles":[],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/martha-ingram/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"vanderbilt-ingram","kind":"institution","name":"Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/vanderbilt-ingram/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"}]}}