Stanford Nabs $3M To Use Big Data To Boost Health Care
On Thursday, the Stanford University School of Medicine announced that it has received $3 million from the Li Ka Shing Foundation to use big data to improve health care. The donation will be used to connect Stanford with the University of Oxford in England, as the two universities search vast amounts of data in an effort to boost medical research.
- "Stanford Lands $3 Million Medical 'Big Data' Gift From Li Ka Shing" (Leuty, "BiotechSF," San Francisco Business Times, 1/23).