Bil­lion­aire gifts Har­vard a his­toric $200M to 'ex­pe­dite' trans­la­tion­al bio­med­ical re­search work

The soil at Har­vard’s biotech fields just got rich­er, thanks to a $200 mil­lion gift from bil­lion­aire Len Blavat­nik’s fam­i­ly foun­da­tion.

“The over­ar­ch­ing goal of the gift is to ac­cel­er­ate the pace of ther­a­peu­tic dis­cov­ery by short­en­ing the tra­jec­to­ry be­tween ba­sic dis­cov­ery and trans­for­ma­tion of in­sights in­to ther­a­pies,” Har­vard Med­ical School wrote of the pledge, which is the largest in its 236-year his­to­ry.

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