On March 2, 2020, HMS Dean George Q. Daley convened a meeting that brought together key physicians and scientists across the commonwealth, joined by colleagues in China via videoconference, to organize a formal, integrated effort to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. There Daley shared the details of China Evergrande Group’s planned commitment to fund separately Harvard and the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health (GIRH) to advance research on the scale and scope needed to meet this extraordinary challenge. The Harvard-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) was born.
Now a multi-institutional collaboration, MassCPR encompasses hundreds of researchers, physician-scientists, clinicians, and public health experts representing world-leading academic, hospital, biopharma, and public-health institutions based in Massachusetts. They are joined by collaborators at GIRH and Tsinghua University in China, and throughout the crisis have consulted with colleagues in Italy, Germany, and India. The consortium’s shared goals are twofold: To turn the tide of this current pandemic and to create a rapid-response system to address future health crises.
Funding for MassCPR has also grown, and we recognize and thank those donors here for their critical support. Sixty-two high-impact research projects have been funded as of July 2020 to address the most pressing needs of the pandemic.
At this time, when the need for urgent and sustained action is critical, MassCPR is grateful to the many individuals, foundations, organizations, and companies that have generously committed resources toward accelerating our research. Thank you to all those listed below who have given generously to support MassCPR.
Founding Donor
China Evergrande Group
Lead Benefactors ($1 million or more)
Fondation Bertarelli/Ernesto Bertarelli, MBA ’93
Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Lisa H. Schwartz, Mark Schwartz, AB ’76, MBA ’78, MPP ’79, and Enid Schwartz
Anonymous (2)
Partners In Discovery ($100,000 or more)
Howard Cox, MBA ’69
Margaret A. Hamburg, AB ’77, MD ’83, GSA ’78
Stephen A. Kahn, MD ’98
David C. Ott, MBA ’92, and Jane Ott
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Friends of Innovation ($1,000 or more)
Helen M. Blau, AM ’70, PHD ’75
David C. Bush, MD ’69, and Louise Bush
David E. Golan, AB ’75 and Laura Green
JESY Foundation
Amy Lai, AB ’88, MD ’92 and Eugene C. Tsai, AB ’87, MD ’93
Jeffrey Leerink
Peter S. Lynch
Mark Miller
Ingrid L. Ott, MD ’90
Robert L. Parsons, MD ’55 and Beverly C. Parsons
Robert L. Parsons, MD ’55
Barbara and Louis Perlmutter
David Spiegel, MD ’71
George F. Welsh, MD ’66
Mary Lynch Witkowski, AB ’96, MBA ’01, MD ’11
David J. Zaleske, MD ’75
Contributors (up to $1,000)
Ms. Carol C. Andrews
Dan H. Barouch, AB ’93, MD ’99 and Fina C. Barouch, MD ’99
Philip E. Blazar, AB ’86, MD ’90
Brewster Foundation
Judith A. Brice, AB ’67, MD ’71
Robert A. Brooks, MD ’55
Sheila Marie Calip-Coleman and Basilio Coleman
Donna Carleton and William Carleton, MD ’66
William M. Carleton Revocable Trust
Laura Ethel Chiel, MD ’15
William M. Clark, MD ’71
Jeffrey Marcus Cohen, MD ’15
Raquel E. Cohen, MPH ’45, MD ’49*
Janie Magana Cordell and Nolan K. Cordell, MD ’85
Bridget King Crooks, Esq. and Gary W. Crooks, AL MD ’81
Amol N. Doshi, MD ’97
Ms. Julia S. Faber
Matt Finnie
Paul N. Foster, MD ’94
Harold M. Frost III, PhD
Brian Seth Fuchs, AB ’04, MD ’11, and Doreen Fuchs
Deborah Geismar, AB ’78, MD ’83
Thomas J. Gill III, AB ’53, AM ’57, MD ’57
Elizabeth C. Glass, MD’ 01 and Andrew Martin Glass
Lauren O. Glickman, AB ’90, MD ’94
John C. P. Goldberg
Margaret E. Hegg, MD ’72
David N. Helman, MD ’95
Herbert Hudnut Jr., MD ’57
Junhee Hur
Bengt L. Ivarsson, MD ’85
Ajeya P. Joshi, MD ’96
Stephanie J. Kopp
Lakshmi Devi Nelson Lattimer, MD ’06
Nancy B. Lazarus, MD ’76, and David Siegel, MD
Leerink Family Foundation
Carol A. Locke, AL MD ‘86
The Lynch Foundation
Sandra Madrid, MD ’76, MPH ’76
Joan L. Martinez, MD ’66
Mark Miller
Randal Moore
Bita H. Nasseri, MD, and Shawn S. Nasseri, MD ’95
Phoebe L. Olhava, MD ’00
Majd Oteibi
Marie E. Pasinski, MD ’86, and Roger C. Pasinski, MD ’78
Georges Peter, AB ’59, MD ’64
Jon M. Portis, MD ’81
Donald W. Putnoi, MD ’67
Lois Narwitz Resnick and Robert H. Resnick, MD ’55
Meryl S. Rosofsky, MD ’93
Kenneth O. Rothaus, MD ’75
Naveen Kumar Salutagi
Jacey and Timothy Shumaker
David Siegel
Dr. Richard L. Soffer, MD ’58
Carolyn Stafford Stein and Eric H. Stein, MD ’86
Nancy J. Stoller and Ronald G. Stoller, MD ’71
Haofeng Edward Tang
Richard R. Thornton, MD ’60
Katherine Frasdilla Tyler
Audrey Shiuan Wang, MD ’08
Dana J. Weinkle, MD ’80
Elizabeth F. Wise, MD ’78
Yifan Yang, MD ’08
Dr. David J. Zaleske, MD ’75
Barry R. Zitin, MD ’73, and Melinda K. Zitin, MD ’73
In-Kind Supporters
Attain
FormAssembly Inc.
Salesforce
* Deceased