Though it's hardly news that exercise and good nutrition relate to cancer, we still have lots to learn about connecting those research findings with health policies. A Hilton grant looks to push such work forward.

The basic scientific understanding of psychiatric and developmental disorders has lagged behind other medical fields. But, thanks to a rising tide of big gifts, it's finally starting to catch up.

Ever wonder how fledgling research institutes scale up to become major league players? Often it starts with a big early gift that funds research that gets results—and then attracts more funding. Here's an example.

The Sohn Conference Foundation's big grant to a precision medicine program shows how a philanthropic organization can fuel its own work with a successful business model. Its cofounder fills us in.

Scientists don't know why record numbers of kids are going to the hospital with severe allergic reactions. But more funders are putting up serious money to establish new allergy research centers.

Brain and psychiatric disorders are among the country's most costly health problems. The Leon Levy Foundation has been one bulwark against the loss of young research talent at a key moment in neuroscience.

Lyme has become one of the country's fastest-growing infectious diseases. It's also a way underfunded area that offers major returns to donors. Now, a billionaire hedge funder and his wife have come in big.

Precision medicine may vastly improve treatment and survival rates for cancer and other diseases. Philanthropist Robert Kraft wrote a big check for research, and gave it to...the Harvard Business School?

In a recent philanthropy manifesto, Parker implored tech givers to do their giving while living and focus on "hackable problems." Among his own top priorities: trying to crack the mysteries around autoimmune diseases.

As part of a broader push by funders to improve quality and control costs in our $3 trillion health care system, the Arnold Foundation is bankrolling a new framework to spread best practices in medical care.

The Simons Foundation has been backing cutting edge research on autism for years. Now, it says, the "time seems ripe to bridge different levels of understanding in a push for a more coherent picture of autism."