{"id":209109,"date":"2026-05-05T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/qualcomm-co-founder-andrew-viterbi-gives-5-million-to-sanford-burnham-prebys-medical-discovery-institute-to-advance-ai-powered-research\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:25:11","slug":"qualcomm-co-founder-andrew-viterbi-gives-5-million-to-sanford-burnham-prebys-medical-discovery-institute-to-advance-ai-powered-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/qualcomm-co-founder-andrew-viterbi-gives-5-million-to-sanford-burnham-prebys-medical-discovery-institute-to-advance-ai-powered-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi gives $5 million to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to advance AI-powered research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1126837\">Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi gives $5 million to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to advance AI-powered research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1126837\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1126837<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 13:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Viterbi&#8217;s Endowed Chair<\/strong>: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has received a $5 million gift from Andrew Viterbi to endow the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Distinguished Chair in its Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Center for Data Science and AI<\/strong>: This interdisciplinary center combines AI, statistics, genetics, and more to analyze raw data and drive innovations in human health.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inaugural Chairholder<\/strong>: The first to hold the endowed chair will be Yuk-Lap (Kevin) Yip, PhD, a leader in computational biology and bioinformatics known for his work in machine learning and complex biological data analysis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation and Impact<\/strong>: Viterbi\u2019s donation aims to foster groundbreaking research and medical advancements through artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanford Burnham Prebys\u2019 Leadership<\/strong>: The institute will continue to attract top scientific talent and push the boundaries of biomedical research, leveraging advancements in data science and AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Viterbi\u2019s Legacy<\/strong>: Viterbi, known for co-founding Qualcomm and inventing the Viterbi Algorithm, is celebrated for his contributions to engineering, higher education, medical research, and the arts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi gives $5 million to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/efdeec2a-9fb7-4f01-9acd-2569605f3cfa\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209111,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209109\/revisions\/209111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}