FasterCures' mission is to identify ways to accelerate the discovery and development of new therapies for the treatment of deadly and debilitating diseases both in the United States and around the globe. The organization was founded in 2003 under the auspices of the Milken Institute to aggressively catalyze systemic change in cure research and to make the complex machinery that drives breakthroughs in medicine work for all of us faster and more efficiently. FasterCures is independent and non-partisan. Our primary mission is to improve the lives of patients by improving the research environment, research resources, and research organizations. Learn more at www.fastercures.org.

About the Milken Institute

The Milken Institute is an independent economic think tank whose mission is to improve the lives and economic conditions of diverse populations in the United States and around the world by helping business and public-policy leaders identify and implement innovative ideas for creating broad-based prosperity. The Institute puts research to work with the goal of revitalizing regions and finding new ways to generate capital for people with original ideas. By creating ways to spread the benefits of human, financial and social capital to as many people as possible – the democratization of capital – the Milken Institute hopes to contribute to prosperity and freedom in all corners of the globe. The Institute is nonprofit, nonpartisan and publicly supported. Learn more at www.milkeninstitute.org.