The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Page family are launching the "Universal Influenza Vaccine Development Grand Challenge" during the centenary year of the 1918 flu pandemic. Read more…
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…
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…
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 most accomplished scientists in pancreatic cancer research, the foundation…
Nature features Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna's Open Philanthropy Project, which has significantly boosted its spending to $200 million this year, of which around $40 million was on scientific research.Open…
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Glen de Vries, co-founder and president of Medidata, has donated $10 million to endow the chair of the dean of CMU's Mellon College of Science (MCS). The gift…
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman and Pam and Dan Baty have made a $50 million gift to create an institute for precision medicine at the University of Washington. Read the university's…
American innovator Ray Dolby's estate gave $100 million to help build Cambridge University's new Cavendish laboratory. The gift is "the largest philanthropic donation ever made to UK science,” according to…
Forbes and The Mercury News report on the red carpet event announcing the Breakthrough Prizes for 2017, totalling $22 million.From The Mercury News:The awards, conceived by theoretical physics dropout and entrepreneur…
Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey have given $10 million to Northwestern University to create an epigentics center at its Feinberg School of Medicine. Read more here.