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2025 Illumination Gala  |  June 14  |  The Ritz-Carlton   

A BRILLIANT EVENING

We are thrilled to share that generous donors have given more than $4.1 million through the Illumination Gala to support the breakthroughs that change the ways we prevent and treat cancer at Siteman Cancer Center. Special thanks to our lead ambassadors, Elizabeth Mannen Berges and Jim Berges, and our celebrity guest hosts, Andy Cohen and Justin Willman, for an unforgettable evening full of hope.

Illumination is The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s premier gala that raises money for cancer research at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine. Illumination is truly an unforgettable evening of hope, entertainment, and philanthropy. Since 2007, this extraordinary gala has raised over $48 million to support more than 185 cancer research projects leading to new ways to prevent and treat cancer. 

See the photos and watch the inspiring videos from the 2025 Illumination Gala!

Grateful Patient Montage

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital is proud to share the courage and stories our grateful families presented at the 2025 Illumination Gala.

Science and Innovation

"The Cancer Frontier Fund is critical to our work because it provides resources and funding for research, for pilot funding, and for developig the next wave of researchers and investigators."
—Dineo Khabele, MD 

Research and Discovery

Watch how your gifts to the Cancer Frontier Fund are vital to the innovative and lifesaving research.  

Grateful Patient

Elizabeth Mannen Berges and Jim Berges know firsthand how far treatment options have come—and continue to progress—thanks to innovations made possible by the Cancer Frontier Fund.

Frontier Night

Watch research scientists and physicians share how gifts to the Cancer Frontier Fund move early-stage research to clinical trials and produce lifesaving patient outcomes at Siteman Cancer Center.

Thank you to our 2025 Celebrity Guest Hosts

Andy Cohen and Justin Willman

There is still time to join the momentum and make a gift to support the breakthroughs that change the ways we prevent and treat cancer at Siteman Cancer Center!