Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million grant — a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’s 56-year history — that will be used to continue exploring an ambitious range of projects aimed at understanding the role chronic inflammation plays in driving human disease.
The grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust extends the historic $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013.
That gift established the Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, which enables Salk’s leading scientists to delve into the genetic underpinnings of some of humankind’s most devastating afflictions, and paves the way to new therapies for chronic illnesses, including cancer, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer’s disease...