For Issues in Science and Technology, Robert Conn, the Alliance's founding board chair and former Kavli Foundation president and CEO, explains why philanthropy gives the American research enterprise a unique…
Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the third post in a series documenting Ross Brown's philanthropic journey. (Read Part I and Part II.)
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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…
Science philanthropy is like a road trip. You pick a lane of scientific endeavor that you are passionate about—it could be climate change, energy storage, neuroscience, ocean science, or the…
Dr. Freeman Hrabowski's career as a champion for diversity in mathematics, engineering, and science began in one of the least likely places: a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. At age…
Dr. Freeman Hrabowski's career as a champion for diversity in mathematics, engineering, and science began in one of the least likely places: a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. At age…
“There has not been a large funding community around infectious diseases, except for the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, maybe because it hasn’t felt urgent,” said Valerie Conn, president of…
The Open Philanthropy Project granted US$17.5 million last year to Sherlock Biosciences, a startup firm in Cambridge, Mass., that’s developing quick, inexpensive tools for diagnosing viruses...That donors are stepping up…
A group founded by the former CEO and executive chairman of Google is huddling with venture capitalists to discuss how they can quickly use their resources to help fight the…
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…