Weills donate $185M to UCSF for neuroscience research, innovation fund
Former Citigroup Chairman Sandy Weill, his wife Joan, and The Weill Family Foundation are donating $185 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Advances in medical research have largely focused on cancer and cardiovascular diseases, whereas studies on the brain have only recently begun to […]
University of Michigan’s Social Venture Fund Invests in Conversa Health
The Social Venture Fund, in collaboration with the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, today announced that it has participated in the Series Seed B convertible note round for Conversa Health, a rapidly growing San Rafael Calif.-based patient engagement company. […]