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May 2023

Seven researchers named recipients of 2023 Brown Investigator Award

The Ross M. Brown Family Foundation today announced seven recipients of the annual Brown Investigator Award. The award recognizes curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics and supports investigators’ research…

Mar 2021

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Brown Science Foundation Announces Inaugural Recipients of the Brown Investigator Award

The Brown Science Foundation today announced physicists David Hsieh of Caltech and William Irvine of the University of Chicago as recipients of the inaugural Brown Investigator Award. The award, which…

Mar 2020

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HHMI Opens New Program for Medically Trained Scientists [via HHMI]

A new $120 million research program aims to tap scientists’ knowledge of the human body.Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) unveiled the Medically Trained Scientists Program (MTS), an initiative…

Feb 2020

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Freedom, Creativity, and Innovation: The Packard Fellowship Case Study

Learn how David Packard, co-founder of the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, launched the Packard Fellowship program. Download the Packard Fellowship case study.Packard and his colleagues created a new type of…

Jan 2020

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A Calling for Moonshot Philanthropy [via The Moonshot Catalog]

Let’s start with some billionaire math. Some 2000 ultra-wealthy households in the United States each hold more than $500 million in assets. This deepest-pocketed demographic controls about $3.7 trillion dollars. In…

Aug 2019

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Caltech Biochemistry, Biophysics Fellowships Honor David Baltimore [via Philanthropy News Digest]

The California Institute of Technology has announced that gifts from the Amgen Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will endow graduate fellowships in biochemistry and molecular biophysics.The fellowship program…

Jun 2019

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Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Gives $30M to Stem Cell Research Centers at UCLA, UCSF and USC [via UCSF]

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation will be making three gifts totaling $30 million to fund innovative research, faculty recruitment, training, and retention at The Broad Foundation’s namesake stem cell research centers…

Jun 2019

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $68 Million to Support the Growth of the Human Cell Atlas [via CZI website]

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $68 million in funding to support the Human Cell Atlas and its selection of 38 collaborative science teams to launch CZI’s Seed Networks for…

Jun 2019

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Mary and Tim Boyle Give $10 Million to Support Biomedical Data Science [via University of Oregon]

A $10 million gift from Portland’s Mary and Tim Boyle is fueling the start of a joint center in biomedical data science recently announced by the University of Oregon and…

Jun 2019

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When Scientists Become Philanthropists: Jim Simons and Frances Hellman [Alliance blog post]

Scientists who become philanthropists are especially attuned to the needs of discovery science. At a recent UC Berkeley-Science Philanthropy Alliance event for philanthropists, a conversation with Frances Hellman, physicist and…

A Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST)

Happy Holidays from the Science Philanthropy Alliance

Tom Cech’s The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets

The Science Philanthropy Alliance: A Decade of Success

National Academies Add Philanthropists to Their Long-Standing Brain Trust of Government, University, and Industry Leaders

Science Philanthropy Alliance 2023 Annual Report

In Tribute: Jim Simons

The Dana Foundation—At the Vanguard of Neuroscience & Society

GUIRR Webinar: Including Philanthropy in the Research Funding Conversation

Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million “Prebys Research Heroes” Program to Improve Medical Research through Diversity

A Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST)

Happy Holidays from the Science Philanthropy Alliance

Tom Cech’s The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets

The Science Philanthropy Alliance: A Decade of Success

National Academies Add Philanthropists to Their Long-Standing Brain Trust of Government, University, and Industry Leaders

Science Philanthropy Alliance 2023 Annual Report

In Tribute: Jim Simons

The Dana Foundation—At the Vanguard of Neuroscience & Society

GUIRR Webinar: Including Philanthropy in the Research Funding Conversation

Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million “Prebys Research Heroes” Program to Improve Medical Research through Diversity

Gifts to Discovery Science

Seven researchers named recipients of 2023 Brown Investigator Award

Brown Science Foundation Announces Inaugural Recipients of the Brown Investigator Award

HHMI Opens New Program for Medically Trained Scientists [via HHMI]

Freedom, Creativity, and Innovation: The Packard Fellowship Case Study

A Calling for Moonshot Philanthropy [via The Moonshot Catalog]

Caltech Biochemistry, Biophysics Fellowships Honor David Baltimore [via Philanthropy News Digest]

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Gives $30M to Stem Cell Research Centers at UCLA, UCSF and USC [via UCSF]

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $68 Million to Support the Growth of the Human Cell Atlas [via CZI website]

Mary and Tim Boyle Give $10 Million to Support Biomedical Data Science [via University of Oregon]

When Scientists Become Philanthropists: Jim Simons and Frances Hellman [Alliance blog post]