Building on the success of our individual research projects, and with a strong belief in the talent and skills of our inspired faculty, we are furthering our goal of taking on some of the biggest challenges facing our world today. Our leadership team, through an extensive vetting process, has identified key areas of potential in which our combined expertise — backed by transformative philanthropic investment — can make a proactive, targeted impact. By marshalling our resources behind each effort, we will make game-changing contributions.

In 2018, the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation enabled us to launch our first two megaprojects, designed to revolutionize precision health and robotics.

Each of our megaprojects is guided by a lead faculty member from each partner institution, with funding distributed as teams of researchers meet agreed upon milestones. 

Today, we seek expendable and endowed funds to propel forward full-fledged programs in areas that impact all of medicine and all of society’s challenges. Those include: quantum science, a new interdisciplinary field in optics, physics and engineering that will enable new computing and imaging tools; the development of secure software for medical devices; drug discovery to advance new medicines and therapies; and the exploration of protein misfolding to discover novel therapeutic targets for many fatal and currently untreatable diseases. We continue to explore areas of great promise.