The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced today that it is funding 38 pilot projects around the world to help build tools and technologies for the Human Cell Atlas, to accelerate our…
Congratulations to our member, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, on the launch of the Schmidt Science Fellows Program!"The $25 million program marks the beginning of a…
Billionaire Ed Bass is giving $30 million to Biosphere 2, the massive, futuristic earth science project he helped create in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert more than 30 years ago.Read more about…
Using most of a $115 million donation from Rajen Kilachand, a Dubai businessman and BU graduate, the school will create an endowment that finances early research by its faculty and…
Brown University’s national mathematics research institute has been tapped to lead an $8 million Simons Foundation project aimed at bringing new computational resources to research in arithmetic geometry and number…
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group recently announced a $10 million gift to create an Allen Discovery Center at the University of Washington Medicine for cell mapping, and another $10…
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…
This BBC article notes: "The Simons Foundation has given the cash for studies into the biological mechanisms that underpin changes in brain development linked with autism. Autism spectrum disorders affect…
Philanthropy News Digest reports on the Science Philanthropy Alliance's survey which shows U.S. research institutions received more than $2.3 billion in private funding for discovery science research in 2016.