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Exclusive: Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Winner Of Parkinson’s Disease Research Prize Funded By Billionaire Ken Griffin
A $10 million Parkinson’s disease research competition launched in 2019 spurred progress toward measuring a protein linked to the disease. The hope is that it could help with earlier diagnosis and tracking of Parkinson’s.
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan On Their New ‘Biohub’ In Chicago And How They Plan To Spend Billions To Help Others Cure Or Manage Disease
In a rare interview, the Meta Platforms CEO and his pediatrician wife, who are Co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, discuss their plans to use technology to deepen understanding of human cells and tissues–and the impact they want it to have on hu…
Exclusive: Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Has Quietly Donated More Than $1 Billion Toward This One Specific Disease
Brin, who more than a decade ago revealed that he has a genetic mutation that gives him a higher risk of getting Parkinson’s Disease, has quietly given hundreds of millions of dollars a year to research what exactly causes the debilitating neurological…
Meet The Iranian Immigrant Who Became A Covid MedTech Billionaire
Joe Kiani surmounted overwhelming personal and professional odds to build a better blood oxygen monitoring device. So why should he be afraid to push his scrappy company into consumer electronics, challenging firms 100 times its size?
Bill Gates Is Reupping His Commitment To Alzheimer’s Research And Detection
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, which got a big boost in 2018 from Gates, Jeff Bezos and others, just raised millions more from its billionaire donors and landed four new funders to advance disease diagnostics.
New Leader To Take Over At Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Country’s Largest Private Foundation
Mark Suzman, the foundation’s chief strategy officer, will replace CEO Susan Desmond-Hellman. Suzman will be the fourth CEO of the Gates Foundation.
