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The COVID-19 Basic Science Prequels

Learn how basic scientific research laid the groundwork for the world’s COVID-19 pandemic response in our new series.

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A Conversation with “America’s Doctor”

Dr. Anthony Fauci shares why basic science is essential to pandemic preparedness and how philanthropy can help.

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The Journey of a Science Philanthropist

Sue Merrilees, senior advisor at the Alliance, chronicles the formation of the Brown Investigator Award from idea to execution.

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Promoting Diversity in Science

Dr. Freeman Hrabrowski suggests four steps institutions and philanthropic funders can take to combat systemic inequality.

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Our Alliance

The Science Philanthropy Alliance is a community of funders who work together to inspire new, emerging and current philanthropists to dedicate a portion of their philanthropy to basic science. Alliance members act both as champions and advisors to other philanthropists to ensure more private funding is earmarked for the kinds of research initiatives that have led to the scientific, technological and medical breakthroughs that fuel our technology and information-driven economy of the 21st century.

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Why Basic Science?

Science Philanthropy News

Introducing the COVID-19 Basic Science Prequels

March 29, 2021

Decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, basic science researchers were laying the groundwork for lifesaving breakthroughs now central to the world’s pandemic […]

Journey of a Philanthropist, Part III

March 15, 2021

Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the third post in a series documenting Ross […]

Leadership Transition at the Science Philanthropy Alliance

March 12, 2021

A note from Alliance board chair Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D. Valerie Conn is stepping down from her position as president […]

Brown Science Foundation Announces Inaugural Recipients of the Brown Investigator Award

March 8, 2021

The Brown Science Foundation today announced physicists David Hsieh of Caltech and William Irvine of the University of Chicago as […]

Special Edition October Newsletter [Alliance News]

November 18, 2020

The Science Philanthropy Alliance published a special edition newsletter in October highlighting the Nobel Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipients. Read […]

How Covid-19 Has Driven Philanthropists to Change Lanes [Valerie Conn blog]

September 18, 2020

Science philanthropy is like a road trip. You pick a lane of scientific endeavor that you are passionate about—it could […]