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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... a Better Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and ... structure of the activated kappa opioid receptor bound to a morphine derivative. They then created...

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Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA

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05/27/2019

... study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics , is the first to functionally link such mutations to the neurodevelopmental ... York City and a professor of computer science at Princeton University...

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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

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07/16/2019

Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for ... Minnesota. Fowler earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins ... School...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

... and genome mining. Scientists used this knowledge to help solve the X-ray crystal structure of the enzyme that ... Wencewicz, assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. “In the...

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Kimberly Walker Appointed as First Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Arabella Advisors

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03/11/2020

... firm’s DEI strategy, coordinating efforts across teams to reach its DEI goals, and strengthening the capacity of ... and is currently completing a Ph.D. program at Antioch University focused on leadership and...

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Denise Arzola Named Director of Clinical-Community Partnerships at the United Hospital Fund

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05/17/2021

... of its Clinical-Community Partnerships. Ms. Arzola comes to UHF from RiseBoro Community Partnerships, where she was a ... A lifelong New Yorker, Ms. Arzola holds a BA from Pace University and a Master of...

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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Welcomes New Senior Program Officer Brian Byrd

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02/16/2022

... health policies in New York. In 2021, he was appointed to the Community Advisory Group (CAG) of the Federal Reserve ... a B.S. in human ecology and public policy from Rutgers University and an M.P.A. from New...

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María Teresa Kumar Joins the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees

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02/09/2023

... has elected voting rights activist María Teresa Kumar to its board of trustees. María Teresa Kumar is the founding ... over 1.4 million voters, 79 percent of whom go on to cast ballots. Kumar advised President...

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Jonas Center Support For Online Tutorials Helps Healthcare Students

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06/17/2014

... Nursing have made available a new series of online lessons to supplement the learning of healthcare students, ... launched an international competition last fall to identify content creators interested in...

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New Center Aids Torture Survivors

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06/18/2014

... Buffalo and Erie County. “We didn’t have a program to provide the specialized services that people with extreme ... American model of service, which they’re not accustomed to .”... New Center Aids Torture...

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Citi Foundation Pledges $10 Million To "My Brother's Keeper"

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07/21/2014

Citi Foundation Pledges $10 Million To "My Brother's Keeper" As part of a group of funders making additional commitments to the White House's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative,...

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Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship

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08/05/2014

Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship The ... $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand scholarship on emerging art and ideas. The ... . “The Foundation’s support...

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

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11/20/2014

... As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to a close and the global aid community embarks on the post-2015 development agenda, opportunities abound to introduce innovation and insight into the way we...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Supporting Advanced Social Work Training

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12/19/2014

... Social Work Training A $1,055,297 three-year grant to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) approved ... the geriatric knowledge and supervisory skills they need to help strengthen social work...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... and computer scientists routinely upload manuscripts to publicly share their findings before peer review, now ... just before the dawn of the World Wide Web, took 17 years to accumulate half a million...

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Deutsche Bank, MetLife, Prudential and Posner-Wallace Join Forces for Capital Consortium Fund

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03/17/2015

... Foundation, the ECC will provide debt financing to social enterprises in the energy, health and Base of the ...

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Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

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03/17/2015

Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding An ambitious funding drive aims to funnel a billion dollars of private donor money into basic ... which launched in 2013, boast a...

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JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment

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03/18/2015

JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment JP Morgan has partnered with the UK government to launch a new multimillion pound fund to encourage...

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Citi is Giving Women the Tools to Shatter the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

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03/20/2015

Citi is Giving Women the Tools to Shatter the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap The gender gap ... as many returns as their male-run counterparts from 2002 to 2014. “There’s a tremendous ripple effect that you ... SBS...

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