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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust provided a two-year $1.375 million emergency grant to the END Fund in support of a program for visceral leishmaniasis.

BOSTON, Jan. 23, 2026 — GentiBio, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering engineered regulatory T cell (EngTreg) therapies, today announced that Breakthrough T1D, with support in part from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, has awarded a grant to support the company’s POLARIS clinical trial evaluating GNTI‑122, an autologous EngTreg investigational therapy designed to preserve endogenous insulin production…

NEW YORK, January 14, 2026 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (“Helmsley”) today announced that Scott Brodeur, PhD, has been hired as Program Director for Helmsley’s Crohn’s Disease Program. With over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Dr. Brodeur is a trained immunologist, a leader in therapeutics development, and an expert in autoimmunity…

The Jewish Agency for Israel has received a grant of $1.5 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in support of the Security Fund, one of the most far-reaching Jewish security initiatives in the world.

LUSAKA, Zambia, December 22, 2025 — In 2023, an estimated 447 million children lacked access to basic drinking water in schools. Africa remains the only region where fewer than half of all schools provide basic drinking water services. The resulting impacts on education, health, and human development are severe but preventable. In many cases, teachers lack the resources, training, and time…

The University of Hawaiʻi has secured two major grants from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, each just over $1 million, which will support distinct but complementary health-oriented initiatives.

Knoxville Hospital & Clinics is excited to announce it has received a $3.5 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to purchase a TrueBeam linear accelerator, a cutting-edge radiation therapy system that delivers faster, more precise, and more comfortable treatment for cancer patients.

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted $500,000 to help Big Sandy Medical Center complete construction of a building to house its computer tomography scanner.

Geoscience Australia (GA) is pleased to announce that the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, has been appointed as the Long-Term Owner of the Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) Program.

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust on Wednesday granted $15,000 to Midwest Street Medicine to support the organization’s mission to provide compassionate, low-barrier healthcare to people experiencing homelessness and housing instability.

A coalition of experts and leaders from the nonprofit, government, and philanthropic sectors provides a first-of-its-kind roadmap to address the needs of homeless New Yorkers experiencing sustained behavioral health crises.

NEW YORK, November 14, 2025 — Breakthrough T1D and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, together with Roche and Sanofi’s Global Health Unit, announced the launch of the Alliance for Integrated, Government-led Networks for T1D (ALIGN-T1D) on World Diabetes Day. Comprising the largest funders of global type 1 diabetes (T1D) programs, leading producers of diabetes medicines and…

This week, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center marked a major milestone in ophthalmic care with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art Eye Institute, designed to provide comprehensive services to tens of thousands of patients annually – both children and adults.

The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is proud to announce that The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded a $10 million grant to support the construction of a state-of-the-art Emergency Underground Hospital in the new Rehabilitation Tower at Ichilov Hospital. This pivotal project aims to provide a comprehensive solution to the urgent need for protected hospital…

BOSTON and NEW YORK, October 22, 2025 – Blue Circle Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), is expanding its free, virtual program that provides clinical care, education, and support to adults with T1D to five more states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. With this expansion, the organization is…