4“You Can’t Cure Anything Unless You Do Basic Science”
$30 Million in Donations
According to Hock Tan and Lisa Yang – the latter, a former investment banker, and the former a CEO of Broadcom Ltd. – “You really can’t cure anything unless you do basic science”. For these two generous philanthropists, that means giving upwards of $30 million in donations to two major universities in order to cure the intellectual scourge known as autism.
Competitive Universities
The two campuses to receive the donations are Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lisa Yang and Hock Tan’s alma maters, respectively. Cornell was the first to receive money from the couple, who gave $10 million in 2015 to fund the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Employment and Disability Institute. The other $20 million is given to MIT in the hope of spurring on multidisciplinary autism research and help scientists discover the cause and cure for autism.
