Michael J. Fox Foundation and Simons Foundation Making Waves in Basic Science
Release Date:
12/01/2017
Private funders are starting to support big projects, and they’re rewriting the playbook on fueling scientific research.
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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth
Release Date:
11/07/2017
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla announced Monday that they may have found a compound essential to the formation of life on earth.
The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers
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11/03/2017
As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the classroom, The Simons Foundation and Overdeck Family Foundation join forces to award five teachers $5,000 each for innovative projects.
Simons Foundation Genomic Database Tool Used in Breakthrough Autism Study
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10/13/2017
In the new study, researchers used a huge genomic database created by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to compare the genomes of 516 individuals who had simplex autism with the genomes of their parents and one sibling who was not...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
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09/19/2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute
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09/14/2017
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Simons Foundation co-founders Jim and Marilyn Simons to dedicate the foundation’s new Flatiron Institute, an intramural research division of the Simons Foundation that tackles big datasets — and big scientific...
Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications
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09/11/2017
The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of intent (LOI) is November 6, 2017 , 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
Simons Foundation Building Research Database of People With Autism
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08/29/2017
The Simons Foundation has created a project called “SPARK” or the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge.
With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up
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08/28/2017
While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ranks of science majors, and...
Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project
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08/23/2017
The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health.
Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change
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08/21/2017
The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious climate giving.
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting
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07/31/2017
The Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics will hold its first Annual Meeting at the Simons Foundation on September 14 & 15, 2017. Spaces with special holonomy are of intrinsic interest in both mathematics...
Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders
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07/25/2017
A study of protein interactions could be the first step to finding treatments that focus on problematic pathways, USC researcher says.
Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign
Release Date:
07/11/2017
Dads will do anything for their children with autism, but SPARK just needs a quick DNA sample.
Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Seeks Proposals for Investigator Awards
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07/10/2017
Established by the Simons Foundation to advance knowledge of the processes that led to the emergence of life, the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life supports creative, innovative research on topics such as the astrophysical and planetary...
Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’
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06/13/2017
In a new paper published in Nature Communications , scientists have uncovered the complex and remarkably different behavior arising in a liquid crystal drop that is drying.
Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"
Release Date:
06/05/2017
Generally speaking, foundations want to know what their grants are accomplishing, or whether they should be putting money somewhere else. This is understandable, to an extent.
With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates
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06/02/2017
A new study published in Cell Host Microbe led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center completely maps all mutations that help the HIV virus evolve away from a single broadly neutralizing antibody, known as PGT151. Broadly...
A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems
Release Date:
05/30/2017
Model microorganisms grown in pure cultures have been the basis of biological research for many decades — open a cell biology textbook and almost everything you will find has been discovered in yeast or E. coli lab cultures. While this speaks to the...
Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism
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05/25/2017
A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric...