A Year of Impact in Animal Welfare, Educational Equity, and Setting Priorities for 2022
During a recent all-staff meeting, the Michelson Philanthropies team highlighted the organization’s top 10 moments of significant impact in 2021,...
And Just Like That… Another Tired Stereotype
I was never a fan of the HBO series “Sex and the City” and certainly did not have any plans for watching the new HBO Max sequel “And Just Like...
2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient Dr. Rong Ma Views Personalized Cancer Research and Rock Climbing as Puzzles She Needs to Solve
2021 Michelson Prizes recipient Dr. Rong Ma says the award will serve as a catalyst to provide the freedom she needs to advance her research. By...
Kenia Miranda Verdugo Joins the Michelson 20MM Foundation as Smart Justice Program Manager
Kenia will lead the foundation’s Smart Justice initiative, which strives to create innovative pathways to educational attainment, employment, and...
2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient Dr. Camila Consiglio Explores Differences Between the Sexes to Develop More Targeted Vaccines
Dr. Camila Consiglio is monitoring Swedish citizens who are undergoing sex reassignment therapy to study how these sex hormones impact their immune...
2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient Dr. Nicholas Wu Takes on Lifelong Quest to Understand How the Immune System Responds to the Flu
Dr. Nicholas Wu is developing a way to systematically identify the targets of hundreds of thousands of antibodies and their binding ability in a...
2021 Michelson Prizes Push New Frontiers in Human Immunology
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project proudly recognize three outstanding early career researchers with the...
‘Push the Boundaries’: 2020 Michelson Prize Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
2020 Michelson Prize Winners Dr. Danika Hill and Dr. Michael Birnbaum say the awards came at transitional points in their careers and enabled them...
A Year of Impactful Legislation: State Leaders Honored for Taking Bold Action to Advance an Educational Equity for California Students
To honor the state leaders who have taken bold action to advance an educational equity agenda, the Michelson 20 Million Minds Foundation and the...
‘Think Big’: 2019 Michelson Prizes Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
As the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project gear up to announce the latest winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes on...
Get to Know Our 2021 Smart Justice Spark Grantees
The Michelson 20MM Foundation is proud to announce their cohort of 2021 Smart Justice Spark Grantees, who will take the challenges of post-secondary...
‘Science Driven by Passion’: 2018 Michelson Prize Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
As the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Vaccines Project gear up to announce the latest winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes on...