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Large donations announced in recent weeks will fund research and education initiatives at multiple academic institutions across the US. The gifts, from the Weill Family Foundation, foundations established by the late manufacturing titan Thomas Lord, and record label founder David Geffen, add up to more than $1 billion.
The Weill gift, reported November 12 by the San Francisco Chronicle, totals $106 million and will fund an interconnected hub for neuroscience research based at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington. The money will go toward faculty, postdoc, and graduate student positions. “We’ve made great strides in cardiovascular disease and infectious diseases, and we’ve made no strides of any consequence in the brain, which is the most complicated part of one’s body. That’s what got me interested,” Sanford “Sandy” Weill, chair of the Weill Family Foundation, tells the ...
