By Elyse A. Hope, Strategic Initiative ManagerThe Science Philanthropy Alliance is celebrating ten years of service toward its mission of advancing scientific discovery through visionary philanthropy. In an interview marking this anniversary, Cheryl Moore, a leading contributor during the Alliance’s formation, reflected on its significance: “There's a place for the scientifically curious to…
Prior to the global emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), most countries and their respective governmental health ministries were lulled into a false sense of biosecurity. The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 are a stark reminder of the catastrophic risks microbial pathogens pose in our globalized society. Considering there is an 80% chance of another pandemic…
The Science Philanthropy Alliance congratulates two pioneers in medical research on their well-deserved Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Drs. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. The Nobel “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19” brought to fruition the vast potential that pioneering research in DNA…