On May 20, 2014, Keck Medicine of USC received a $2 million gift from The Eli and Edy Broad Foundation to support the development of promising regenerative medicine researchers at The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.

The gift established the first series of Broad Fellows—exceptional senior postdoctoral researchers who are preparing to start their own laboratories. It also supports core research facilities and innovative projects at USC, home to one of only two dedicated university stem cell research centers in Los Angeles.

To advance the next generation of scientists, the gift provided ongoing support for the center’s state‐of‐the‐art core facilities in imaging, therapeutic screening, flow cytometry and stem cell isolation and culture. It also enabled strategic investments in the innovative research projects that will become tomorrow’s clinical advances in regenerative medicine.

The investment came at a critical time. With government dollars for promising researchers in short supply, the gift helped ensure USC will remain a destination for the next pioneers in regenerative medicine and stem cell research. Patients will also reap the rewards of this research in the form of future stem cell‐based cures.

Philanthropic leaders in biomedical research as well as many other fields, philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad created USC’s stem cell research center with a $30 million gift to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in February 2006.