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Stowers Medical Institute
The Stowers Medical Institute (SMI) was established in 2005 by Kansas City philanthropists James Stowers Jr., founder of American Century Investments, and Virginia Stowers. Based in Cambridge, Mass., SMI employs a model similar to that of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, funding the work of researchers who maintain labs and faculty appointments at their home institutions.
Currently, SMI supports the work of two Assistant Investigators: Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; and Chad Cowan, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Inspired by their personal battles with cancer, the Stowers began their support of medical research by founding the Stowers Institute for Medical Research (SIMR) in Kansas City, Missouri in 1994.
SMI was born of the Stowers’ belief that early, or embryonic, stem cell research is an essential tool for excellent basic biomedical research. The Stowers’ personal funding of SMI is in addition to their funding of SIMR. No funds from the SIMR endowment are used to fund SMI or its scientists. |
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