Building breakthroughs in biomedicine
The Taubman Institute was founded in 2007 by the late A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's leading entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
The mission of the institute is to advance the "high-risk, high-reward" ideas of U-M's most talented medical minds, allowing them to pursue novel ideas not supported by traditional government and foundation funding.
In suppot of the mission, the institute provides unrestricted grants to the best and brightest biomedical investigators.
A crucial component of the Taubman Institute's contribution is our ability to identify individuals and teams who also possess key attributes of leadership, vision, managerial abilities, commitment to collaboration, track records of meeting milestones, and ability to leverage resources to accelerate results.
Through the gift of Alfred Taubman and the generous contributions of others, the institute has created a community of scholars, whose scientists are working collaboratively in advancing discovery in many pressing medical fields. They are creating innovative partnerships with leaders in other disciplines such as engineering and bioinformatics, harnessing expertise to create new diagnostic and treatment models.
Taubman Scholars have started more than a dozen biomedical firms, earned more than 100 patents and initiated collaborations with institutions across the United States and around the globe.
The Taubman Institute is poised to be in the vanguard of world-class medical discovery, innovative cross-disciplinary collaboration and, most importantly, nurturing future generations of medical science thought leaders, and with them, the cures of tomorrow.
“Being part of saving a life is the most important thing a human being can do.”
In late 2007, the late A. Alfred Taubman, one of America’s leading entrepreneurs and philanthropists, launched the medical research institute that bears his name at the University of Michigan Medical School.
His vision was to create and enable a research community that is employing fundamental scientific discovery to unlock the core processes of disease, and to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and cure.
Alfred Taubman and his family are well-known for generous contributions to a variety of worthy causes, including the art museum, architecture school and world-class health system at the University of Michigan. The capstone of his legacy is the creation of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute.
