Catalyst
From Innovation to Impact
How does a globally renowned medical center translate its focus on innovation into real-world impact? Just ask the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors. In 2019, its campaign to establish the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Innovation Center (BOGIC) sought to lay the groundwork for an innovation ecosystem that could foster our ability to understand human disease at its most elemental level: the cell.
Thanks to the remarkable generosity and vision of the members of the Board of Governors, the BOGIC now stands as a premier destination for discovery, comprising 30,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories, data centers and collaborative spaces.
Our last campaign to support the Board of Governors Innovation Center was like building the rocket. With this new campaign, it’s time to blast off."
— Adam Selkowitz, chair of the Board of Governors
This year, the Board of Governors took its next step, launching a $60 million Innovation to Impact campaign and empowering the BOGIC to answer some of the biggest questions related to today’s most devastating illnesses.
The campaign will help accelerate the early phases of research in six major areas: cancer, with an emphasis on finding ways to stop the disease before it starts; autoimmune diseases, which affect an estimated 24 million people nationwide; children’s health, including brain tumors, leukemia, epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder; neurosciences, advancing our knowledge of the biology of Alzheimer’s disease; diabetes and aging, unraveling the mysteries of metabolism and cellular senescence; and discovery across disciplines, supporting the BOGIC as it seeks to translate key findings in the lab to treatments in the clinic.
A major partner in this work is Alfred E. Mann Charities, Inc., which pledged an eight-figure gift to create the Alfred E. Mann Single Cell Precision Medicine Center. Located within the BOGIC, the center will serve as a hub for leading-edge single-cell biology research, with far-reaching implications for uncovering the fundamental causes of human disease.
The Innovation to Impact campaign continues the BOGIC’s track record of moving medicine forward. “Our last campaign to support the Board of Governors Innovation Center was like building the rocket,” said Adam Selkowitz, chair of the Board of Governors. “With this new campaign, it’s time to blast off.”
