BOSTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts couple is donating $100 million to help find an effective vaccine against AIDS.
The presidents of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University said the new Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute "will bring scientists and clinicians together with engineers using the latest technologies in an interdisciplinary effort to better understand how the body fights infections and ultimately to apply that understanding against a wide range of infectious diseases and cancers."
"This institute will let top researchers from some of the best institutions in the world apply their full creative potential to problems of tremendous global importance." Dr. Bruce Walker, director of the Ragon Institute, said Tuesday in a news release.
Phillip Terrence Ragon, 59, is the founder and sole owner of InterSystems, which provides database software to hospitals and other industries, The Boston Globe said.
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