Michelson Medical Research Foundation

History

Initiatives

• The Institute for Protein Design.
• The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience: Inaugurated on November 1st, 2017, The USC Michelson facility — the largest research building located at the University of Southern California — provides a revolutionary environment for collaborative research.
• The Michelson Entrepreneurship Award seeks to drive technological innovation in healthcare at the Wharton Startup Challenge.
• The Michelson Ethical Research & Education Initiative: a partnership between the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine aimed at ending the use of dogs and other animals in medical education and various types of medical research such as alcohol abuse research, heart failure research.
• The Michelson Prizes for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research are $150,000 awards that support young investigators applying disruptive research concepts to significantly advance the development of future vaccines and immunotherapies.

  Beneficiaries

• The Human Vaccines Project.
• The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
• The University of Southern California.
• The University of Washington.
• The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.