Science is born from hunches and serendipity

Major scientific breakthroughs come from imagination and chance, coupled with a scientist's curiosity to recognize significance.

Research opens new questions, not just answers

Scientific inquiry typically begins narrow but opens dozens of new avenues of investigation, each capable of taking research in entirely new directions.

Early-career scientists face funding pressure

Scientists are typically most creative and productive early in their careers but fail to receive the financial support essential to reaching their full potential.

Unrestricted funding invests in the person

Unrestricted funding recognizes and supports a scientist's talent, ideas, judgment, curiosity and long-term potential. Money can buy equipment, hire staff or pursue new inquiry lines, giving scientists space and time to evaluate ideas too abstract…

“Unrestricted funding is an investment in the person.”

Blavatnik Awards support young scientists

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists provides grants ranging from fifteen thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars, the largest such prizes awarded to early-career scientists.

Freedom produces breakthrough companies and discoveries

Blavatnik Award recipients have created over fifty companies with a combined value exceeding forty billion dollars, including Amprius, which develops high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries; Editas Medicine, a gene-editing company; and Revolution Medicines, which develops new cancer…

Freedom to explore is the essence of science

Unrestricted funding provides freedom to ask questions without knowing where answers might lead. This freedom to explore, experiment and persevere is the very essence of science and enables unexpected advances and breakthroughs that change how…

“Unrestricted funding is not simply the awarding of money. It is the gift of freedom to explore, experiment, and persevere.”