Launched with a $172 million philanthropic donation and funds from the state of Victoria, the Melbourne-based research institute aims to construct drug discovery platforms to speed the introduction of new therapies.

The launch of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability—the first new school at the university in 70 years—comes thanks to a $1.1 billion gift from a venture capitalist and his wife.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are dedicating a further $3.4 billion to biomedical and human health research on top of $3 billion invested several years ago, the organization announced this week.

His work contributed to the development of the drug Xalatan, a treatment for glaucoma.

Danforth founded the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and expanded scientific research at Washington University and beyond campus in St. Louis.

Wishing you a sciency season’s greetings!

A total of more than $1 billion will go to institutions including the Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, and branches of the University of California.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has focused attention on funding of higher education institutions by patrons with disgraceful behavior.

The weather outside is frightful, but these sciency gifts are delightful.

An investigation by Science reveals that charities’ investments support activities opposed to their own missions, such as human health and environmental protection.

With the largest private gift to a public college, the new facility aims to infuse the local economy with fresh opportunities, but returns on the investment are anything but guaranteed.

‘Tis the season to be sciency.

Private funders are starting to support big projects, and they’re rewriting the playbook on fueling scientific research.

The donation to the University of California, Irvine, is slated to fund a new college focusing on what some critics call pseudoscience and quackery.

Steve Braun of Cures Within Reach, a nonprofit focused on breathing new life into old medicines, describes the potential benefits of drug repurposing.

Sciencey gifts for the science-minded giver

Meet the researcher/entrepreneur who started a nonprofit that seeks to solve the science behind a rare disease that threatens the life of her younger brother.

But can $3 billion dollars meet the lofty goals of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?

The Oracle cofounder’s gift will fund a new institute at the University of Southern California.