Power of Giving 2019 | Health & Medicine: Funding New Frontiers in Neuroscience
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How is philanthropy accelerating breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder? Is this moment in brain health research analogous to where cancer was a few decades ago? Join philanthropist Dagmar Dolby, Dr. Howard Fillit of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and geneticist Steve McCarroll of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, as they discuss their involvement in neuroscience research and why philanthropy’s ability to take risks and fund early- stage research and drug development is so critical to progress in the field. This panel from the Smithsonian’s 2019 POWER OF GIVING program, moderated by Valerie Conn of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, discusses the intersection of philanthropy, government, investors, and pharma in neuroscience research. THE POWER OF GIVING: PHILANTHROPY’S IMPACT ON AMERICAN LIFE, is part of the National Museum of American History’s Philanthropy Initiative. To view other POWER OF GIVING videos, visit the Philanthropy Initiative’s YouTube Playlist, visit http://bit.ly/2JE4ivl. For more information about the Philanthropy Initiative, visit https://americanhistory.si.edu/topics/philanthropy.
