Chuck Feeney has championed projects to better the lives of people in a variety of countries. Below are select stories about how Atlantic's grantmaking has accelerated biomedical and scientific progress, improved health care and transformed communities.
Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions
Republic of Ireland
Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney envisioned a quantum leap to help create a knowledge economy and provide young people with modern skills for better jobs. He chose research because of his conviction that Ireland’s future prosperity depended on its ability to generate new knowledge.
Research Institutes in Queensland
Australia
Chuck Feeney believes sustainable scientific progress in biomedical research will bring advanced medical care to disadvantaged and vulnerable people, and that together, world-class institutions are more likely to develop medical breakthroughs greater than any single institution would achieve alone.
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center
United States
Chuck Feeney has championed UCSF’s efforts to find cures for cancer and cardiovascular disease by giving a total of $270 million for three buildings: the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building; the Cardiovascular Research Institute, scheduled to open in 2011; and the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, planned for 2014.
University of the Western Cape
South Africa
A well-timed question about unfulfilled needs during the Atlantic Board’s visit to the University of the Western Cape in 2005 led Chuck Feeney to help this institution with the mission of serving historically marginalised people to build a world-class Life Sciences Building.
The National Hospital of Pediatrics
Viet Nam
Chuck Feeney championed strengthening the health care infrastructure and public health system that had been ravaged by the war, and this work continues today. Atlantic’s development partnership in The National Hospital of Pediatrics in Ha Noi is an example of this transformative work.
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