#SciencePhilanthropy

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George Church George Church is a Harvard Medical School geneticist who took Jeffrey Epstein's money from 2005 to 2007, received Epstein-introduced Leon Black gifts, and in 2014 formed the investment vehicle Georgarage with Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who trafficked girls with Ghislaine Maxwell across five residences, cultivated financiers, politicians, scientists and intelligence officials, and died in federal custody in 2019.
John Brockman John Brockman is a New York literary agent who founded the Edge Foundation and Edge.org, hosted the annual Billionaires' Dinner, and whose salon was for years substantially funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
Lawrence Krauss Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who organized Jeffrey Epstein's 2006 Virgin Islands gravity conference, ran an Arizona State institute funded by Epstein and Leon Black, and retired after a 2018 harassment investigation.
Martin Nowak Martin Nowak is a Harvard mathematical biologist who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, founded with a 2003 Jeffrey Epstein gift, and was sanctioned in 2021 and placed on leave in 2026 over Epstein.
Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky was an MIT cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, took funding from Jeffrey Epstein, and was named in a 2019 unsealed deposition by Virginia Giuffre, an allegation his widow disputed.

Edge Foundation The Edge Foundation is John Brockman's nonprofit that runs Edge.org, hosts the annual Edge Question and Billionaires' Dinner, and drew a majority of its 2001 to 2017 revenue from foundations associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Harvard research center founded in 2003 with a 6.5 million dollar Jeffrey Epstein gift, directed by Martin Nowak, where Epstein kept an office and keycard access until 2018; Harvard closed it in 2021.