Robert and Nancy Carney have donated $100 million to Brown University’s brain science institute to advance the understanding of the brain and what causes Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases...Understanding the basic mechanisms of the brain could lead to cures and new treatments.

The University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design has won an $11.3 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to cook up a public health breakthrough: a universal flu vaccine."About $5.6 million of the Open Philanthropy Project’s grant will support basic protein research. That part of the grant will go toward developing machine learning techniques to refine Rosetta’s protein-folding…