The latest in Denny Sanford’s string of big gifts finds the credit card billionaire underwriting a new institute at University of California San Diego to research empathy and reshape medical training to benefit doctors and patients.
Read MorePsychedelics have reentered the mainstream conversation thanks to Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind.” But there are still very few foundations that focus in this area. We get the inside story of how one philanthropist came to back psilocybin research and related causes.
Read MoreThe Gilbert Family Foundation, a leader in research funding for the incurable disease Neurofibromatosis type 1, has upped its game. Not content to just treat symptoms, the funder recently announced a three-year, $12 million initiative to find a cure.
Read MoreNeurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s afflict millions of people worldwide, with growing human and financial costs. As a new year begins, we look at some of philanthropy’s current efforts to move the needle on research and treatment.
Read MoreThere’s a lot going on with Alzheimer’s research these days. In the latest sign of growing action, a Silicon Valley philanthropist is teaming up the Alzheimer’s Association to move millions in grants to boost the search for desperately needed therapies.
Read MoreAs Alzheimer’s disease inflicts an ever-rising toll on aging populations in the U.S. and overseas, the race is on for research breakthroughs. The Rainwater Charitable Foundation recently announced a major new prize focused on a key protein.
Read MoreAlzheimer’s has been one of medicine’s toughest challenges, and while researchers soldier on, patients and caregivers are struggling right now. We look at who’s providing grants to improve services for these patients and their caregivers.
Read MoreSince 2010, the Bertarelli Foundation has been funding a collaboration between Harvard Medical School and EPFL in Switzerland. It’s an unusual effort to link up researchers to study brain and sensory disorders.
In the latest example of the new money flowing into this space, a team of top philanthropists has joined forces to find new biomarkers to detect, diagnose and track Alzheimer’s disease.
Read MoreDiseases of dementia, including Alzheimer's, are among medicine's toughest challenges. AARP is getting behind an unusual effort to catalyze new breakthroughs in this frustrating field.
Read MoreFoundations and research groups increasingly see out-of-the-box collaborations as holding the key to faster medical breakthroughs. Which explains why a top brain funder and heart organization are teaming up.
Read MoreCZI is playing the long game with its health science funding. Its latest boost to the Human Cell Atlas project seeks to create the framework for global cooperative research for decades to come.
Read MoreWith more deep-pocketed donors excited by brain research, a handful of universities has landed some seriously large gifts. Brown is the latest school to get in on the action.
Read MoreFor the past few years, the Autism Science Foundation has been running a program to fund undergraduate scientists. It's virtually alone in targeting research dollars at this level. What's its thinking?
Read MoreKnown for its support of cognitive research, the James S. McDonnell Foundation became frustrated by how little of what it learned ended up in classrooms. Here's what it did next.
Read MoreEmpowering outlying research ideas can be a key to medical breakthroughs—or a major waste of money. Here's a how a Florida philanthropist is looking to shake things up on Alzheimer's.
Read MoreFour foundations funded a team of researchers who set out to create a more powerful and accessible device to monitor brain activity. The effort could lead to breakthroughs in neuroscience.
Read MoreDespite the fact that dementia could literally bankrupt the U.S. as the population ages, no mega-giver or foundation really owns this space yet. But more funders are stepping up with some big gifts.
Read MoreIt's no surprise that a partnership between the National Institutes of Health and the National Football League is dissolving this month. Few corporate funders bankroll research that threatens their bottom line.
Read MoreDallas philanthropist Lyda Hill approaches science funding by supporting emerging fields and scientific solutions to problems. Here's what this big-league giver has been up to lately.
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