Gates Foundation and Page Family Launch $12 Million Flu Grand Challenge [via Gates Foundation]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Page family are launching the “Universal Influenza Vaccine Development Grand Challenge” during […]
Categories for Gifts to Basic Science
Brain Science Institute at Brown Receives $100 Million Gift [via Washington Post, Associated Press]
Robert and Nancy Carney have donated $100 million to Brown University’s brain science institute to advance the understanding of the […]
Open Philanthropy Project awards $11M to protein designers for universal flu vaccine [via Geekwire]
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 […]
Lustgarten Foundation Awards $22 Million for Pancreatic Cancer Research [via PR Newswire]
The Lustgarten Foundation announced today that it funded $22 million in 2017 as part of its commitment to invest $40 million by the end of 2018. In addition to funding the […]
Open Philanthropy Project pours funds into high-risk research [via Nature]
Nature features Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna’s Open Philanthropy Project, which has significantly boosted its spending to $200 million this […]
Glen de Vries Gives $10 million to Endow Carnegie Mellon Science Deanship [via CMU]
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Glen de Vries, co-founder and president of Medidata, has donated $10 million to endow the chair […]
Brotman and Baty Families Donate $50 million to UW Precision Medicine [via Univ of Washington and Seattle Times]
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman and Pam and Dan Baty have made a $50 million gift to create an institute for […]
Ray Dolby’s Estate Donates £85m to Cambridge physics laboratory [via Financial Times and Cambridge University]
American innovator Ray Dolby’s estate gave $100 million to help build Cambridge University’s new Cavendish laboratory. The gift is “the […]
Breakthrough Prize Winners [via The Mercury News, Forbes]
Forbes and The Mercury News report on the red carpet event announcing the Breakthrough Prizes for 2017, totalling $22 million. From […]
Northwestern Univ. Receives $10 Million for Epigenetics Center [via Philanthropy News Digest]
Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey have given $10 million to Northwestern University to create an epigentics center at […]
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds 38 pilot projects to build the Human Cell Atlas
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced today that it is funding 38 pilot projects around the world to help build tools […]
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation Launches $25M Schmidt Science Fellows Program
Congratulations to our member, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, on the launch of the Schmidt Science […]
Fort Worth Billionaire Gives $30 Million to Study the Environment [via Fort Worth Star Telegram]
Billionaire Ed Bass is giving $30 million to Biosphere 2, the massive, futuristic earth science project he helped create in […]
$115m gift, Boston University’s largest ever, will fund life sciences and engineering research [via Boston Globe]
Using most of a $115 million donation from Rajen Kilachand, a Dubai businessman and BU graduate, the school will create […]
Simons Foundation Funds Algebra and Number Theory Research [via Brown University]
Brown University’s national mathematics research institute has been tapped to lead an $8 million Simons Foundation project aimed at bringing […]