Empowering great minds to do good.

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.

Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets.

In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Huberman Lab podcast. The podcast is frequently ranked in the top 10 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of Science, Education, and Health & Fitness.

In 2022, HubermanLab Premium was launched in partnership with the Tiny Foundation. The Tiny Foundation has committed to match every dollar of Huberman Lab Premium proceeds donated to science.

Dr. Keith Jerome is a renowned virologist whose research focuses on viruses such as herpes simplex, HIV and hepatitis B that persist in their hosts. He studies the ways in which these viruses evade the immune system and potential therapies for these infections.

Dr. Jerome and his colleagues are studying the uses of precision gene-editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9 to remove damaging viral genes that have tucked themselves into a person’s genetic code or to insert genes that can protect cells from invading viruses. He and his colleagues are exploring this approach in combination with blood stem cell transplants as a means of curing HIV.

Dr. Jerome is directing his Tiny Foundation grant to help fund his work at The University of Washington.

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Dr. Rhonda Patrick is a published scientist and health educator based in San Diego. Her popular website and podcast, FoundMyFitness, reaches an audience of over 300,000 people per month.

Her areas of focus include micronutrient deficiencies and their role in aging, the role of genetics in determining the effects of nutrients on a person's health status, benefits of exposing the body to hormetic stressors, such as through exercise, fasting, sauna use or heat stress, or various forms of cold exposure, and the importance of mindfulness, stress reduction, and sleep.  

Her work has been published in the journals FASEB, Nature Cell Biology, and Trends in Cell Biology.

Dr. Patrick is directing her Tiny Foundation grant to the work of Dr. Ashley Mason, who is investigating whole-body hyperthermia through sauna, a potential non-pharmacologic intervention for depression.

Jesse Brown is a publisher, reporter, and podcast host. He runs Canadaland, maker of Thunder Bay, Cool Mules, and a stable of news and current affairs podcasts that apply a critical lens to Canadian media and politics.

Jesse hosted two CBC Radio One programs: The Contrarians and Search Engine. He won the Hillman Prize for investigative reporting for his work with The Toronto Star, breaking the Jian Ghomeshi story.

Jesse is directing his Tiny Foundation grant towards original journalism, producing sequels to Thunder Bay, and new enterprise investigation for Canadaland.

Our investment of $1,000,000 is the first investment made from our Tiny Journalism Foundation, which invest in sustainable journalism organizations which support independent journalism in Canada.

Carole Cadwalladr is a journalist for The Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom.

She worked for a year with whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her investigation into Cambridge Analytica, which she shared with The New York Times. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.

Cadwalladr's work has won a Polk Award and The Orwell Prize for political journalism, and she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019.

‍Carole is directing her Tiny Foundation grant to fund an upcoming open-source journalism project focused on uncovering corruption.

Dr. Kari Nadeau is one of the nation’s foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy and asthma.

Dr. Nadeau received her MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School, completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and a clinical fellowship in asthma and immunology at Stanford.

She has authored or co-authored more than 100 original papers. Her research focuses on understanding the factors responsible for the increased prevalence of allergies and asthma in the population, improving diagnostics, and understanding the immunological mechanisms underlying these diseases.

She was the first to successfully desensitize individuals to more than one allergy at a time using multi-allergen oral immunotherapy.

‍Dr. Nadeau is directing her Tiny Foundation grant to help fund her work at Stanford.

Dr. Kelleher is recognized internationally for innovation in academic health leadership and administration, clinical care, research and education.

Dr. Kelleher joined UBC in 2015 as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Prior to his appointment at UBC, Dr. Kelleher served as Vice-President Health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, where he also held a concurrent appointment as Dean of the Lee Kong Chian Medical School in Singapore until 2014.

Dr. Kelleher graduated from medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1978, going on to specialize in gastroenterology. Author of 300 publications and 14 patents, Dr. Kelleher’s research examines the immune response to many of the leading causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease worldwide.

‍Dr. Kelleher is directing his Tiny Foundation grant to help fund the work of Dr. Shane Duggan, Dr Kelleher’s research investigates how the immune response contributes to gastrointestinal health and disease, including auto-immune disease, infectious disease and cancer.

Daemon Fairless is a writer and freelance journalist with a master's degree in neuroscience, who has worked as a producer on CBC Radio's flagship current affairs show As It Happens, and as a print journalist for the science journal Nature. He's the author of Mad Blood Stirring: The Inner Lives of Violent Men.

‍His hit investigative podcast for the CBC, Hunting Warhead, covered the dark underworld of child sexual abuse and the international efforts made to track down perpetrators and prevent it at the root.

‍Daemon is directing his Tiny Foundation grant to the work of Dr. Michael Seto, who is researching the psychology of child sexual abusers and how to intervene before abuse is committed.

Beaumont is a freelance investigative journalist who regularly contributes to The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Narwhal and other publications.

Ugwa is an independent investigative journalist and storyteller based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Reporter and audio producer based in Phoenix, Arizona. He has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire and Wired, among others.

Reporter at Coda Story. She has covered anything from digital authoritarianism to disinformation as host and lead producer of weekly podcast Coda Currents.

Troian is an Indigenous investigative freelance journalist and producer who has contributed to media outlets across North America.

Independent journalist based in Mumbai. Her writing has appeared in TIME, Wired, Nat Geo, Slate, BBC and The New York Times, among other outlets.

Abba is an investigative journalist with the International Center for Investigative Reporting in Abuja with specific emphasis on holding the powerful to account.