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Gerstner Philanthropies proudly celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, honoring two decades of groundbreaking biomedical and genomic research. Since its founding in 2004 following the completion of the Human Genome Project, the Broad Institute has made monumental advances in disease understanding and medical innovation. Our partnership with Broad, established over a decade ago, includes Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.'s leadership as Board Chairman from 2013-2021, and the 2019 founding of the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics. The Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics aims to advance blood-based biopsies and other technologies to speed cancer diagnoses and track patients' response to therapies.
Read more at broadinstitute.orgOn October 11, Gerstner Philanthropies celebrated the rededication of the St. Philip Neri School in the Bronx, marking a step forward for Catholic education and community engagement. Led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the event highlighted the completion of key renovations that will offer future generations a high quality catholic education in a new and improved learning environment. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Chairman of Gerstner Philanthropies, had an opportunity to sit down and share a Q&A with student ambassadors from the middle school.
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A $25 M gift from Gerstner Philanthropies will establish the Gerstner Scholars Program in AI Translation at Mayo Clinic. This gift will provide resources for junior and early-career clinicians to collaborate with leading experts in artificial intelligence, data science, and informatics to drive breakthrough innovations in patient care. Mayo Clinic is scaling development and integration of AI solutions, with more than 250 AI solutions already in use or under development. "AI holds incredible promise for the future of medicine, but it takes more than just algorithms to make that promise a reality,” says Mr. Gerstner. “It requires a commitment to innovation and to the talented individuals who can turn theory into practice. By creating the Gerstner Scholars Program at Mayo Clinic, we ensure that clinicians with patient-first strategies have what they need to redefine what’s possible in healthcare."
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Gerstner Philanthropies Program Director Alice Goh spoke on a panel with the Environmental Defense Fund to discuss collaborative research efforts to drive livestock methane solutions, joined by Joseph McFadden, Associate Professor of Dairy Cattle Biology at Cornell University, and Facundo Etchebehere, Senior VP of Sustainability Strategy at Danone. The panel discussed the need for enteric methane solutions that are safe, effective, and can be easily deployed to farms, and highlighted Gerstner Philanthropies’ work with the Global Methane Hub’s Enteric Fermentation Accelerator to drive research and development in livestock methane mitigation.
Watch the video at Vimeo.comThe Global Methane Hub’s Enteric Fermentation R&D Accelerator has published its Research Strategy, marking a milestone in the fight to tackle livestock methane emissions. The accelerator was launched last year with support from Gerstner Philanthropies, the Bezos Earth Fund, High Tide Foundation, and several other private and public funders. Agriculture accounts for 40% of global methane emissions, with 70% of that coming from methane produced during livestock digestion. As methane is 86 times more potent than CO2, this marks a significant step in the fight to curb climate change. “The Accelerator’s research strategy will address key knowledge gaps in each of the identified focus areas,” says Hayden Montgomery, Program Director of Agriculture. “As new scientific information emerges, additional research areas will be incorporated in the research strategy, ensuring it remains up-to-date and responsive to the latest developments, to ultimately, develop cost-effective mitigation solutions to directly decrease livestock methane emissions.”
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