Environmental Health Fund
To coordinate and facilitate multiple activities and collaborations to reform chemical policies at state, federal and international levels.
Archives Grants
California Institute of Technology
To support research on dissecting the function of macaque prefrontal face patches by John Merck Scholar Doris Tsao.
Children’s Hospital Boston
To support research on the role of tuberous sclerosis proteins in axon development by John Merck Scholar Mustafa Sahin.
Children’s Hospital Boston
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Michela Fagiolini in impaired excitatory-inhibitory cortical circuit balance in autism spectrum disorders.
SUNY-Stony Brook Research Foundation
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Arianna Maffei into the inhibitory cortical circuits’ development and modulation of network activation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To support research into the exploratory behaviors of at-risk infants by John Merck Scholar Laura Schulz.
University of Colorado at Boulder
To support John Merck Scholar finalist Eliana Colunga’s research modeling individual developmental trajectories in early word learning of typically- and atypically-developing children.
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
To protect access to abortion using litigation, policy advocacy and state-based initiatives.
Breast Cancer Fund
To harmonize state and federal environmental health advocacy seeking to ban the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A from food and beverage containers; and to infuse a breast cancer prevention and a public health perspective into the debate on federal chemical policy…
Brennan Center for Justice
To promote an independent, nonpartisan commission dedicated to examining the aspects of US counterterrorism policies that pose the greatest threat to America’s democratic values.