The same enthusiasm and curiosity that drove Ted Waitt’s business success now drive his desire to support significant scientific breakthroughs for the benefit of mankind. The Waitt Foundation funds efforts that show exceptional promise to transform our world, not just by themselves, but also by their potential to act as catalysts for other advances.

Achieving Breakthroughs

Believing that goal-oriented science can inspire incredible innovation, we look for projects with focused objectives, achievable milestones and strong strategic plans. We then bring the best minds and global resources together to resolve differences, achieve critical breakthroughs and accelerate progress.

Over the past five years, the Waitt Foundation has awarded over $27 million to novel, innovative and interdisciplinary world-scale science projects that have pioneered new technologies and forged educational advances.

Advancing Biological Imaging & Microscopy

Listed below are links to some of our most significant scientific collaborations:

- Salk Institute for Biological Studies — To establish the Waitt  Advanced Biophotonics Center for the potential to transform the way researchers analyze and treat disease…

- National Geographic Society — To support the Genographic Project, an initiative to collect and analyze more than 100,000 DNA samples from people all over the world to shed new light on our genetic and migratory history…

- University of California San Diego, CRBS — To produce the Whole Brain Catalog, a ground-breaking, open-source, 3-D virtual environment that lets neuroscientists from all over the world collaborate and crowd source brain research solutions…

- Foresight Institute — To construct a Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems to provide a common framework and agenda for nanotechnology researchers in government, academia and industry…