Minerva Foundation
| Founded | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Helen and Elwin Marg |
| Type | Corporation |
| Focus | Neuroscience |
| Location | |
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Area served
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US |
| Method |
Research Awards |
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Revenue
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$ 4,706,426 (2011) |
| Website | http://www.minervaberkeley.org |
The Minerva Foundation is a US-based non-profit, scientific and charitable foundation. It is headquartered in Berkeley, California. It works to promote research in neuroscience, specifically on original and challenging approaches to the study of the visual brain. It was established in 1983 by Helen and Elwin Marg. Other than the founders, directors include Richard M. Buxbaum, Lawrence W. Stark, Semir Zeki, Tamia Marg Anderson and Lila S. Crutchfield.
The foundation was named after Minerva, the Roman goddess of, among other things, wisdom and medicine.
Minerva Foundation is exclusively for fostering research in neuroscience, and has three major activities, namely
Minerva Foundation has a Minerva House, constructed in 1889. It is a large Victorian building originally built for Charles C. Boudrow (c. 1830–1918), a Massachusetts-born master mariner, in downtown Berkeley near the University of California at Berkeley campus. The house was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark on 21 June 1976. It was bought by Frank Leba and Kelly Brown in 1994, who restored and renovated the entire building. They even received a BAHA Preservation Award in 2006. The Minerva foundation finally acquired it in 2008. It has private living quarters (mostly studio apartments) for individual guests and a shared floor with a kitchen, library, computer facilities, media equipment, and study and conference rooms. Several apartments are reserved for visiting scholars. It is also reserved for Golden Brains during their stay.
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