Science Funding
Epstein is a financial supporter of the sciences and the founder of The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which funds cutting edge science research and education around the world. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation was established in 2000. In 2003, Epstein donated $30 million to Harvard University to set up the university's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which studies evolution and evolutionary biology from a purely mathematical point of view. Under the direction of Martin Nowak, Epstein was solely responsible for financing new research such as the first mathematical model of the kinetics of human cancer cells. Epstein also funded Nowak's original research on the origin of life and RNA replication on Earth. In 2004, Epstein's foundation funded Nowak's research at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Epstein currently sits on the Mind, Brain and Behavior Committee at Harvard University.
Epstein has also funded genetic research leading towards cures in such fields as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, ovarian cancer and Crohn's and Colitis Disease. He has given substantial funds to the American Cancer Society, notably to CTC technology, a blood test to identify genetic mutations to anti-inhibitor cancer drugs
Epstein has provided funding to scientists such as Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Marvin Minsky, Lawrence Krauss, Lee Smolin and Gregory Benford. Epstein's foundations sponsored a conference on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands with such scientists as nobel laureates, Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss, covering such topics as a unified gravity theory, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, the origins of language and global threats to the Earth.
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