Story
|Dec 17, 2025
Engineering Hope in the Fight Against Cancer
Seattle Children’s Therapeutics (SCTx) is delivering groundbreaking research with potential application for kids with cancer or autoimmune diseases.
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News & Stories
The latest from FFST
Story
|Nov 24, 2025
Funding Unfundable Science - Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Funding to Fred Hutch Cancer Center supports studies of the immune system in cancer and autoimmune diseases as well as the development of new cell therapies for cancers.
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Story
|Nov 04, 2025
Benaroya Research Institute - a Global Resource for Disease Researchers
In its inaugural tranche of grants, Fund for Science and Technology funded Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) to support its biorepository infrastructure—an essential engine behind groundbreaking discoveries in human immunology
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News
|Oct 26, 2025
Big Bets, Long Bets: Investing in the Power of Ideas
MedCityNews
There is an opportunity to design a path forward that builds stability in the short term and opens doors in the long term for foundational and transformational science and technology solutions that will benefit our planet and its people.
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News
|Oct 15, 2025
This $3.1 Billion Fund Channels Paul Allen’s Wealth. What Kind of Grantmaker Will It Be?
Inside Philanthropy
As Paul Allen’s philanthropic legacy continues to evolve, and given the multibillion-dollar scale of the fortune he left behind, there are sure to be more major investments in science and technology to come out of FFST and the Allen world.
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News
|Sep 12, 2025
New US$3.1 billion foundation takes big, long-term bets on bioscience, AI and the environment
Nature
Lynda Stuart, president and CEO of the newly launched Fund for Science and Technology, discusses the philanthropic organization’s plans for bioscience and AI.
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Press Release
|Aug 27, 2025
Fund for Science and Technology Announces Inaugural Grants, Planning at Least Half a Billion Dollars in the Next Four Years
Part of the Paul G. Allen philanthropic ecosystem, new private foundation is focused on transformational science & technology across bioscience, the environment, and AI for good
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Story
|Aug 27, 2025
Accelerating Progress Through Bioscience, AI for Good, and Environmental Advances
Learn more about the inaugural grantees accelerating transformative science
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News
|Aug 27, 2025
New foundation from Microsoft co-founder reveals inaugural research grants, pledges $500M funding
Fierce Biotech
A new foundation from the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has launched with a set of four research grant recipients and plans to give $500 million over the next four years to support bioscience, environmental science and AI development.
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News
|Aug 27, 2025
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s final act: New $3.1B foundation bets big on science and tech
GeekWire
Even in the final years of his life, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was as excited as ever about what the future would bring for science, technology, and the world — telling GeekWire in a 2017 interview, “It really is a golden age of what’s possible.”
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News
|Aug 27, 2025
Paul Allen estate-backed fund launches with $500M in science grants
The Seattle Times
The Fund for Science and Technology launched Wednesday with plans to fund at least $500 million worth of grants over the next four years.
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