Atlantic Philanthropies Pledges $84-Million for Health Research in Australia
July 28, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Atlantic Philanthropies has donated $84-million toward health and medical research in Queensland, the largest gift by a charitable organization in the Australian state’s history, Brisbane’s Courier-Mail reports.
The gift, a founding chairman’s grant, will fund research on breast cancer, schizophrenia, and malaria vaccines at three Queensland institutions. It brings to more than $223-million the total that Atlantic has contributed to scientific and medical work in the state, which in recent years has become one of Australia’s major research hubs.
Read more about Atlantic’s founder, Chuck Feeney – the Irish-American duty-free-shop magnate and “billionaire who wasn’t,” who for years gave away hundreds of millions of dollars anonymously – in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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