The HHMI Investigator Program is an impactful program that funds research at over 70 academic centers. Stanford now has 22 researchers in the program.
Foundations often choose a mission to provide far-reaching benefits to humanity by making grants that enable cutting-edge research possible. This research, when translated to real-world solutions, creates the exponential "impact" of improving our lives for the future. Let's look at one example.
Background. For over 40 years the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing has been a key hub of an ecosystem connecting Stanford innovations with licensees and investors. Stanford OTL is considered a pacesetter and one of the country's most active offices in the field of technology transfer from university to industry. Among the most prominent of the inventions licensed by OTL are Florescent Activated Cell Sorter (FACS), FM Sound Synthesis, DNA Cloning, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology, and even the Google search engine itself. To serve its ecosystem, OTL has pioneered a popular search portal website called "TechFinder".
