On Oct. 1, 2015, The Kavli Foundation announced a $20 million award to establish the Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at University of California, San Francisco. The Institute’s goal is to forge new collaborations among neuroscientists, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists to devise innovative technologies for brain research.

This endowment was part of a newly announced commitment of more than $100 million by the Foundation and its many university partners to accelerate research aimed at deepening our understanding of the brain and brain-related disorders, such as traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

The Foundation’s commitment will also establish two other new Kavli neuroscience institutes, at The Johns Hopkins University and The Rockefeller University. The three new institutes will become part of an international network of seven Kavli Institutes carrying out fundamental research in neuroscience, and a broader network of 20 Kavli Institutes dedicated to astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics. The Foundation is also partnering with Columbia University, the University of California, San Diego, Yale University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to build their existing Kavli Institute endowments further.