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For Funding, Scientists Turn to Unorthodox Sources [via Discover Magazine]

Wudan Yan discusses non-government sources of  funding for scientific research, including philanthropy.  “When federal funding declines, then philanthropic funding becomes more important,” says Marc Kastner, the president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, an organization that advises philanthropists to funnel their money toward discovery science research. “And that’s what we’ve been seeing in the last few years.”

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Private Funding is Unlikely to Replace Government Funding of discovery science

Marc Kastner, president of Science Philanthropy Alliance, recently wrote in a San Jose Mercury News op-ed:"With many recent high-profile announcements about science philanthropy, some may wonder if philanthropy could replace a significant portion of government funding.The Science Philanthropy Alliance recently conducted a survey of private funding of discovery science in the U.S. The survey indicates that…

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America’s ‘Miracle Machine’ is in desperate need of, well, a miracle [Washington Post op-ed]

Eric S. Lander, president of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University and Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, write about the importance of discovery science. "It’s the reason the United States is the global hub for the technologies of the future: self-driving cars, genome editing, artificial intelligence, cancer immunotherapy,…

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How to Maintain America’s Edge: Increase Funding for discovery science [via Foreign Affairs]

L. Rafael Reif, president of MIT, writes about the economic impact of basic research and the important role the government plays in funding it:"Only about six percent of industry funding goes to basic research—to projects designed to expand humanity’s store of knowledge rather than pass tests of immediate usefulness. This is understandable. Basic research is curiosity-driven,…

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Beckman Foundation Announces Funding for Breakthrough Microscope Technology

Five leading universities will receive $12.5 million from the Beckman Foundation for state-of-the-art Cryo-EM instrumentation. In support of the foundation’s mission of supporting research breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences, the funds will go to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah…

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