Funding innovative, impactful and creative ideas in science is expensive.
The Innovative Genomics Foundation supports the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) by receiving donations from people like you who are excited by the work that the IGI is doing to provide equitable access to:
Innovative therapeutics
Sustainable crops that can withstand the pressures of climate change
Tools to mitigate and perhaps reverse the effects that climate change is having on our world
The Innovative Genomics Foundation supports the IGI through providing funding and monetary support in a variety of ways. Our Foundation supports the scientific exchange of ideas through organizing seminars and conferences.
We support specific scientific research through grants to IGI investigators, and support innovative entrepreneurial programing for innovative faculty and researchers. We plan to provide support for other aligned academic and non-profit organizations, offer educational opportunities to faculty, investigators and students, and develop a non-profit incubator/accelerator.
About Us
The Innovative Genomics Foundation was founded in 2022 as an independent 501c3 non-profit in support of the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), based at the University of California. The IGI was founded by Nobel laureate Dr. Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, in 2015 to apply the breakthrough technology to areas of unmet need in human health, agriculture and climate change. Our Foundation aims to provide sustainable funding to allow the IGI to perform urgent, world class research to further IGI’s impact on the most pressing issues affecting humanity.
How we work
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, co-founded of the IGI
The Innovative Genomics Foundation supports the IGI, where world-class scientists and students work together to solve issues related to human health such as cancer, blood disorders (sickle cell anemia, beta thalassemia), inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and Artemis SCID. The IGI is also tackling climate change through programs to increase soil carbon deposition, decrease green house gas emissions in rice cultivation and livestock and to increase sustainability in agriculture. Inequitable distribution of therapeutics and crop improvements is also a major focus as the IGI seeks to improve human health and mitigate climate change throughout the world.
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Will you join us in our mission to support the Innovative Genomics Institute? Please reach out to learn more or donate directly via this webpage.
Jennifer Doudna in the lab at the IGI holding a model of CRISPR-Cas9