The donations are going to the University of California San Francisco and Stanford.
: Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne announced a $35 million donation to a pair of Bay Area universities Tuesday that will go toward medical research involving the human microbiome, continuing the couple’s penchant for giving to institutions and causes around San Francisco, where Salesforce is based.
Of the gift, $25 million will go to the University of California San Francisco to open a new UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine, which will aim to develop study how to prevent childhood diseases and develop therapies for conditions including asthma, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease,The human microbiome—the 100 trillion bacteria that live in the human body—is an emerging field of study that has beenKey...
: The Salesforce CEO, who has a net worth that Forbes pegs at $6.1 billion and is known as San Francisco’s unofficial benefactor-in-chief, has so far funneled $200 million into UCSF, including a $30 million earlier this year to create the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, which will work to identify the root causes of homelessness.
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