Billionaire professor donates ‘transformative’ sum to protein science institute
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Julia Robinson2023-05-30T13:45:00
$210 million endowment from entrepreneur and Moderna investor Tim Springer will support ongoing research
A founding investor in the biotechnology company Moderna has donated $210 million (£170 million) to the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI) in Boston, US.
Billionaire Tim Springer, who has been a professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School for 46 years, cofounded the IPI in 2017 and previously donated $40 million to the non-profit research organisation.