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Swiss biotech executive and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli has pledged $75 million to Harvard Medical School to advance scientific discovery and a “culture of entrepreneurship,” the university announced Tuesday.
The gift will also allow HMS to move ahead with plans to convert the courtyard outside Building C—one of the five buildings forming the medical campus’s main quad—into a skylight-covered atrium.
The building, which will eventually be renamed the Bertarelli Building, houses several medical departments and a therapeutics institute. Construction is expected to begin this year and end in 2025.
“Ernesto Bertarelli is an ardent supporter of both fundamental and translational research at Harvard Medical School,” said HMS dean George Q. Daley. “He understands that in order to improve the health and well-being of patients, we must first support observations in the lab and then nurture and orient them toward interventions in the clinic. It is therefore fitting that the Bertarelli name will be inscribed in the marble of the building that personifies our commitment to both basic and therapeutic science.”
Bertarelli is a graduate of Harvard Business School and current chair of the HMS Board of Fellows.
