The Stanley Family Foundation has donated $280 million to the Broad Institute, bringing its total contributions to over $1 billion. The funding will support seven more years of research at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, focused on understanding and treating bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Inspired by Jon Stanley’s severe bipolar episodes in youth, his late parents, Ted and Vada Stanley, committed their fortune to accelerate psychiatric research. By concentrating resources at the Broad Institute, the foundation’s approach fosters collaborative, large-scale efforts. The gift aims to advance genetic studies, identify new interventions, and improve therapies for serious mental illnesses worldwide.
Stanley Family awards $280M to Broad Institute for Bipolar and Schizophrenia Research
How one family’s bipolar disorder experience led to more than $1 billion for the Broad Institute
James Pollard
Associated Press
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