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Jan 25, 2024 · An 88-year-old Swiss billionaire who lives in Wyoming is the American right wing’s favorite to replace George Soros. Hansjorg Wyss with Michael Bloomberg at a benefit in New York City in 2015 ...
Oct 20, 2022 · Harvard University announced today the latest gift of $350 million from Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, to support the continued mission of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and ensure that it will continue to make a positive impact in the world for many years to come.
Apr 28, 2021 · Hansjörg Wyss's announcement to donate USD 1 billion to conservation projects caused a sensation. Portrait of a discreet man from Bern who made his fortune in the United States. Publication date April 28th, 2021. Swiss entrepreneur and businessman Hansjörg Wyss is above all a philanthropist, in the fields of environmental protection and science.
Oct 20, 2022 · (CAMBRIDGE, Mass) — Harvard University announced today the latest gift of $350 million from Hansjörg Wyss (Harvard M.B.A. ’65), an entrepreneur and philanthropist, to support the continued mission of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and ensure that it will continue to make a positive impact in ...
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One of cancer’s most insidious tricks is deactivating the body’s immune cells, which normally find and kill malfunctioning cells. A project from the lab of David Mooney, Ph.D. in the Institute’s Immuno-Materials Platform created a small implantable scaffold made of a biodegradable polymer that contains components derived from a patient’s cancer cel...
Any drug that is developed for humans is first tested on animals to determine its safety and efficacy, but because animals are metabolically and genetically different from humans, drugs that work in mice or rats often fail to work in people. In addition, patients sometimes react differently to different drugs, but it is difficult to predict what th...
Diagnosing a patient with the correct illness is necessary to treat any disease, and recent diagnostic technologies have emerged that can determine sickness or health on a molecular level. However, most molecular diagnostic tools are costly, labor-intensive, and require advanced lab equipment, making them difficult to deploy in low-resource setting...
Nearly a million Americans suffer from a stroke every year, and 80% of them lose the ability to use one of their legs normally. Even after undergoing physical therapy, many patients never regain a normal walking gait, are more prone to falls, and become more sedentary. Wearable “exoskeletons” are being developed to provide support during walking an...
A decade after Wyss founded the Institute, 375 full-time staff collaborate and work in 100,000 square feet of research space shared between Harvard’s Longwood Medical Campus and Cambridge sites. The community of scientists, biologists, physicists, chemists, engineers, and clinicians includes 18 Core Faculty, 16 Associate Faculty, and numerous stude...
Jul 18, 2019 · In 1958, a Swiss student named Hansjörg Wyss boarded a propeller plane across the Atlantic to Denver, Colorado. Between his time hiking and climbing, Wyss fell in love with the landscapes of the American West. At 30 years old, he made his first donation: $200 to a conservation organization. Now a businessman and entrepreneur, Wyss has ...
Oct 20, 2022 · T he University announced this morning that Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, has made a $350-million gift to support the research of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—his fourth: a start-up gift of $125 million in 2008 (then the largest in Harvard history); a second , equal round in 2013; a $131-million boost in 2019; and today’s huge installment.
