Princeton University researchers will push the limits of data science by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning across the research spectrum in an interdisciplinary pilot project made possible through a…
Learn how Jim and Marilyn Simons, co-founders of the Simons Foundation, made a significant impact on autism research through their philanthropic efforts. Download the Simons Foundation SFARI case study.The Simons Foundation…
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is launching a new area of research, the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. Over the next nine years, the foundation will invest $140 million to…
David and Claudia Harding have donated £100m to Cambridge University. The donation is the biggest single gift made to a university in the UK by a British philanthropist. The money…
Jen Jope at Giving Compass interviews Alliance executive director Valerie Conn about the work of the Science Philanthropy Alliance to advise new, emerging and current philanthropists on how to effectively…
At a recent Science Philanthropy Alliance member meeting, Harvey Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, spoke with Priscilla Chan, co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), about…
discovery science funding was featured among the recent IP Philanthropy Awards (IPPY) awards:Mega-Giver We Will Miss the Most: Paul AllenBefore he died in October, Allen brought vision, daring and compassion…
Marc Kastner is president of the Science Philanthropy AllianceAs former dean of science at MIT and now as president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, I have spent a lot of…
Valerie Conn is executive director of the Science Philanthropy AllianceThe leaders of three major U.S. science foundations participated in a panel discussion at a Science Philanthropy Alliance meeting this summer.…
The CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network brings together experimental scientists from diverse research fields — neuroscience, cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, and genomics — along with computational biologists and physicians, to understand the underlying…