
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco billionaire has donated $35 million to Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco to enhance their study of the human microbiome. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff donated $25 million to launch the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine and $10 million to the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative. The human microbiome is the full assortment of bacteria, viruses and other microbes than inhabits the human body.
Main Idea: Marc Benioff and his wife have given $35 million to Stanford and UCSF to support research on the human microbiome and new treatments tied to it.
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Benioff’s donation could speed research on microbiome-based treatments for common illnesses, which may help patients and families if the science works.
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