West Wireless Health Institute Gets Another $25M, Announces New Partnerships
If nothing else, the West Wireless Health Institute knows how to make a splash.
The San Diego-based nonprofit research institute, which made its debut in March 2009 by announcing a $45 million grant, is hosting an open house this evening that represents the first chance most people have had to tour the recently remodeled, three-story, 36,000 square-foot facility.
West Wireless Health
The West Institute is in an ideal location atop Torrey Pines Mesa (within the vaunted 92037 zip code), basically between The Salk Institute and The Scripps Research Institute—and just opposite the northwest corner of the UC San Diego campus. Shortly after guests begin to arrive, the West Wireless Health Institute is issuing a series of public announcements that underscore just how well positioned it really is. The new developments include:
—The Gary and Mary West Foundation, the family foundation established by telemarketing entrepreneurs Gary and Mary West, have donated an additional $25 million to the institute. The funding, which follows a $20 million grant announced
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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