Stephen Strittmatter, MD, PhD

VISIONARIES AND EARLY BELIEVERS

The Harrington Family

A $50 million transformative gift in 2012 from Ron and Nancy Harrington and their children Jill and Ron, and daughter-in-law Lydia Harrington, made possible the vision of Dr. Jonathan Stamler to support physician-scientists. The gift established Harrington Discovery Institute as a key part of a pioneering global initiative— The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development—which combines a non-profit organization with impact investing partners to form a powerful system for drug development.

Jonathan S. Stamler, MD

An internationally acclaimed physician-scientist known for the discovery of protein S-nitrosylation, a global post-translational modification of proteins that is widely involved in both physiology and disease, Jonathan understood the pivotal role physician-scientists play in advancing discovery. He established Harrington Discovery Institute with the Harrington family and University Hospitals to support physician-scientists (later to include all scientists in areas of unmet need) with financial and human capital in the form of expert industry guidance. The vision was to enable a better drug development model in academia that could move discoveries from bench to bedside more quickly and efficiently.