The Institute for Science and Health offers an opportunity to make a real and lasting difference in the battle against disease and suffering. We take great pride in our outcome-driven business approach to research, and believe that this approach offers numerous advantages for our benefactors as well as the investigators that receive grant support.

Advantages of the Institute include:

• Independence

The Institute teams with the best and brightest scientists and researchers whose cutting-edge ideas hold the most promise for early diagnosis, disease prevention, innovative targeted therapies, and cures.

• Focus

We focus not on " diseases of the day ," but on those that are often overlooked, yet affect millions worldwide.

• Choice

You have the "power of choice" to support research that is part of one of our current initiatives or to establish new initiatives that match your particular area(s) of interest.

• Accessibility

There are no funding minimums. Contributions of any size are important and welcome.

• Involvement

You can track the progress of the research you help fund, through our online reports system. Progress reports are updated semiannually or sooner depending on when research milestones are achieved.

• Integrity

Rather than raising funds for specific selected projects or seeking projects to meet specific donor requests, we amass sufficient funds for a Program Initiative before requesting research proposals.

• Objectivity

Each research proposal is reviewed by experts for novelty in experimental scope and design, and the potential for success, among other criteria. External peer review is a critical component of the Institute proprietary Rubicon operational model for research. Additionally, no grant is awarded unless funding is guaranteed to completion. This prevents outside influences from contaminating the research process or results.

• Accountability

Grant awards are paid quarterly (via invoicing) based not on projected outcomes, but whether projects progress according to the proposed plan and timetable.

• Security

We hold and invest both received and committed funds to maintain the principle value. This ensures adequate funding for the duration of any awarded research project.

• Efficiency

Because of our low overhead, roughly 85% of the Institute's funding goes directly to support research projects.