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Foundations

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was created in 2000 to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Seeks to improve the health and healthcare of all Americans by assuring access to quality care; improving care for people with chronic health problems; promoting healthy communities; and reducing substance abuse. The Foundation supports training, education, research (excluding biomedical research), and projects that demonstrate the effective delivery of healthcare services.
  • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
    Works to encourage entrepreneurship, including in disease research.
  • Lasker Foundation
    Works to increase public awareness, appreciation, and understanding of promising achievements in medical science in order to increase public support for research. The centerpiece activity of the Foundation is an annual awards program, which recognizes stunning achievements in basic and clinical research. It also houses the "Funding First" initiative to build the case for a sustained, long-term national commitment to medical research with key decision makers and the policy community.
  • Manhattan Institute: Center for Medical Progress
    Dedicated to articulating the importance of medical progress and the connection between free-market institutions and making medical progress both possible and widely available throughout the world. CMP publishes MedicalProgressToday, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connection between private sector investment and biomedical innovation, market friendly public policies, and medical progress.
  • Markle Foundation
    Works to realize the enormous potential of emerging information and communications technologies to improve people"s lives, and to accelerate the use of these technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health and national security.
  • The Susan Cohan Kasdas Colon Cancer Foundation
    The mission of The Susan Cohan Kasdas Colon Cancer Foundation is to dramatically reduce the death rate of colon cancer by providing men and women the education and facts about screening, educating youth and parents to promote preventive screenings, insuring that no individual is unable to access proper screening and care, providing psychological support to families affected by colon cancer, and aiding in clinical trials and cutting edge research that will speed critical new medications and treatment regimens.