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Philanthropists have been generous in their support of the stem cell work going on in California’s universities. The New York–based Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Fund donated $20 million to Stanford University that enabled the school to establish a stem cell research center. The Broad Foundation contributed $25 million to the University of Southern California, which was used to build a new stem cell research center. Ray and Dagmar Dolby gave $5 million to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and $16 million to the University of California, San Francisco to fund stem cell research.

By 2005, American philanthropists had donated $250 million to California universities and research programs conducting stem cell research. The University of California, Los Angeles has used $20 million in donations to recruit new stem cell researchers to conduct significant work in fields such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and neurological disorders.