The Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation, established in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is funded by an endowment from the late Ray Edwards.
Financial support has been provided to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, San Diego, and the Neurosciences Institute through various awards and charitable contributions granted by the Foundation.
The Edwards Foundation has recently announced the recipient of its eighth Career Development Award. Dr. Jill Leutgeb, Assistant Professor in the Neurobiology Section of Division of Biological Sciences at University of California-San Diego, will receive research funding from the foundation for the three year period 2010-2012.
Dr. Leutgeb's proposed research, Neural Network Mechanisms for the Encoding of New Memories, will focus on how information about the temporal order of events is combined with spatial or contextual information within the hippocampus to form a unique memory trace about what, where and when an event occurred.
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds to UCSD Division of Biological Sciences in support of its 2008-2009 Nature Matters lecture series, Science Matters.
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds for sponsorship of the 2009 La Jolla Historical Society lecture series, The Emergence of Pioneering Scientific Institutions in La Jolla: UCSD, The Salk Institute, and The Scripps Research Institute
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds to endow the Roger Guillemin Nobel Lecture series and Francis Crick Nobel Lecture series at the Salk Insitute for Biological Studies.
The Edwards Foundation is providing funds to endow the Ray Thomas Edwards Biological Sciences Eureka! Research Scholarship at the University of California, San Diego.
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds to endow the Ray Thomas Edwards Graduate Student Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, Division of Biology.
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds to endow the Ray Thomas Edwards Graduate Student Travel Award to enable students in neuroscience programs to attend professional conferences.