MISSION
The Pershing Square Foundation supports exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important social, health, and environmental issues and deliver scalable and sustainable impact.
ABOUT US
The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) is a family foundation established in 2006 to support exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important social issues and deliver scalable and sustainable global impact. PSF has committed more than $700 million in grants and social investments in target areas including health and medicine, education, economic development and social innovation. Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman are co-trustees of the Foundation.
By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities — around the world.
PROGRAMS
The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance was formed in 2013 by The Pershing Square Foundation, which has since committed more than $43 million to 71 scientists, in partnership with The Sohn Conference Foundation. The Alliance is dedicated to playing a catalytic role in accelerating cures for cancer by supporting innovative cancer research and by facilitating collaborations between academia and industry. Annually, the Alliance awards the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize ($750,000 over three years) to early-career, greater New York City area scientists who are engaged in cutting-edge cancer research. For more information, visit http://psscra.org/.
2025 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Application Guidelines
The application portal for the 2025 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize has closed. The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent was October 28, 2024 by 5:00pm EDT.
We are currently reviewing submissions, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a Full-Length Proposal (FLP). Applicants will be notified about the status of their application no later than n December 16, 2024.
Invited applicants must submit their FLP through our application submission website.
Please check back in summer 2025 for information on our 2026 application cycle.
If you have any questions regarding the Pershing Square Sohn Prize, please contact us at info@psscra.org.
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The Pershing Square Foundation’s brain initiative funds cutting-edge research that revolutionizes our ability to predict, prevent, and treat neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Advancing our fundamental understanding of the brain and cognition to ultimately combat neurodegeneration and related diseases is a goal of increasing urgency. Breakthroughs in basic scientific and translational research will yield critical tools for and knowledge of NDDs, including Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, which affect millions of people worldwide.
The MIND (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) Prize ($750,000 over three years) supports and empowers early-to-mid-career investigators to rethink conventional paradigms around NDDs. Modeled after the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize, the MIND Prize catalyzes interdisciplinary approaches and facilitate collaborations across academic departments and institutions. It fuels the groundbreaking research that will accelerate our understanding of NDDs at every level.
Projects may range from the invention of novel tools, techniques, and technologies for mapping and analyzing the brain to bold approaches that demonstrate extraordinary therapeutic potential. Research domains may include—but are not limited to—neurobiology, brain imaging and mapping, machine learning, drug delivery, and synthetic biology. Researchers must be based as academic research institutions in the USA.
2025 MIND Prize Application Guidelines
The application portal for the 2025 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize has closed.
The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent was November 4, 2024 by 5:00pm EST.
Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to present their proposal to our Scientific Advisory Board in New York City. Applicants will be notified about the status of their application by early February 2025.
Please check back in summer 2025 for information on our 2026 application cycle.
If you have any questions regarding the MIND Prize, please contact us at info@MINDPrize.org.