Aging is a major risk factor for chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. While industrialization and modern medicine have extended average life…
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and while significant progress has been made in recent years, we still don’t understand its complex mechanisms and how best to target…
Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of Americans – private philanthropic support can help scientists not only understanding its origins, but develop more effective interventions to treat it in the future…
Philanthropic funding for emerging infectious disease research has steadily increased by about 10% annually between 2014-2019 in response to epidemics around the globe, such as MERS, Ebola, Zika, and Chikungunya.…
Many scientists from all over the world move to the United States to work and advance fundamental scientific understanding. A 2020 analysis conducted by the National Science Foundation showed that…