The Helen Diller Foundation has granted $500 million to UC San Francisco."Of this, $100 million will be used to retain outstanding current professors and recruit preeminent faculty to UCSF by funding Helen Diller Distinguished Professorships...With the knowledge of dependable funding, Helen Diller Professors will have the opportunity to pursue research, initiate new lines of…

Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo commit an initial $1 billion to brain discovery, treatment, and development. Their gift to Caltech builds on a gift from the Moore Foundation, which established the influential Caltech Brain Imaging Center in 2003. The new donation will attempt to replicate that success by creating four similar centers, each with its own focus,…

Nuala Sawyer reports on Bill Bowes' gift to UCSF for biomedical research.

Rosanna Xia reports on a significant gift to brain research in "How a mind-controlled robotic arm paved the way for Caltech's new neuroscience institute"  

Reporter Tate Williams writes about the donor behind a big neuroscience gift in Iowa.