Hansjörg Wyss doubles his gift
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Hansjörg Wyss (M.B.A. ’65), the entrepreneur and philanthropist who enabled the institute’s creation in 2009 with a $125 million gift, has donated a second $125 million gift to the University to further advance the institute’s pioneering work. The Wyss Institute seeks to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges in health care and the environment by drawing inspiration from nature’s design principles. In addition to uncovering new knowledge about how nature builds, controls, and manufactures, the institute measures success in the ability of its faculty and staff to translate their discoveries into products that can have near-term impact. “Mr. Wyss is extraordinarily generous, and we are deeply grateful that he has expanded his support of multidisciplinary research at Harvard,” said Drew Faust, Harvard’s president and Lincoln Professor of History. “Through the Wyss Institute, we are realizing his vision — generating promising technologies...