Moore Foundation Selects Matthew Stephens for Data-Driven-Discovery Grant

"The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation today announced the University of Chicago’s Matthew Stephens as the recipient of a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery award. Stephens, a professor in statistics and human genetics, is among 14 scientists from academic institutions nationwide who will receive a total of $21 million over five years to catalyze new data-driven scientific discoveries. Stephen’s grant is for $1.5 million. These Moore Investigator Awards are part of a $60 million, five-year Data-Driven Discovery Initiative within the Gordon and Betty Moore’s Science Program. The initiative—one of the largest privately funded data scientist programs of its kind—is committed to enabling new types of scientific breakthroughs by supporting interdisciplinary, data-driven researchers ..."