Dr. Gary K. Michelson delivers the keynote address at the groundbreaking of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience USC Michelson Center Groundbreaking Keynote Video from October 23, 2014. Speakers: USC President C. L. Max Nikias; philanthropist, retired...
The DaVinci Hour's Episode 32 podcast with Dr. Maxwell Cooper features Dr. Gary Michelson discussing his physician-inventor career, funding early-career scientific investigators, and a new center for immunology research in California. In this DaVinci Innovators+...
Michelson 20MM’s latest installment in the Connecting California series explored opportunities created by this historic investment as part of its broader Digital Equity Initiative, which works to close the digital divide through collaboration, policy, and investments....
At the Keystone Symposia 2022 SciTalks conference: Progress in Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases, Michelson Philanthropies celebrated this year's winners of its Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants and Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for...
Nearly 4 million student parents across the country courageously work to attain their postsecondary degrees; in fact, 20% of all undergraduate students in California are parents. Often overlooked, pregnant and parenting students must overcome time poverty; a lack of...
By the Michelson 20MM Foundation The Michelson 20MM Foundation is proud to launch the Digital Equity in Tribal Communities Project, a new multi-year effort to address digital inequity in indigenous communities. This project looks to empower tribal nations with the...
Recently, a historic investment was made to ensure that every American has access to reliable, high-speed internet. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which dedicates $65 billion to bridge the digital divide, includes $42.5 billion allocated for states, $14.2...
Dr. Nicholas Wu’s research has the potential to shift the paradigm of antibody discovery and characterization. Dr. Wu attempts to interpret the complexity of the human antibody repertoire, by establishing a sequence-based approach for epitope prediction.
Dr. Rong Ma’s research provides a pathway for using the mechanical forces involved in the human immune system to identify and predict immune responses. Her research could greatly advance vaccine development and personalized cancer treatment.
Dr. Camila Consiglio offers a novel approach to understanding differences in human immune responses between sexes by studying a unique cohort of people: individuals undergoing sex-re-assignment therapy.
Dr. Paul Bastard of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Institut Imagine, INSERM & University of Paris, and The Rockefeller University, New York, received the Michelson Philanthropies & Science Grand Prize for his outstanding essay “Why do...
Dr. Lisa Wagar's research deciphers the immune responses to viruses and vaccines using human tonsil organoids. Dr. Wagar received a BSc from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of Toronto. After completing her postdoctoral...