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Yun Fu

Associate Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Yun Fu is an associate director on the Innovative Finance team at the Milken Institute. She contributes to the research, development, and execution of Financial Innovations Labs, which explores innovative financing models to address global social and economic challenges.
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Emily Musil, PhD

Managing Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Emily Musil, PhD, is managing director at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy, where she leads the Environmental and Social Innovation portfolio.
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Glenn Yago

Senior Fellow, Milken Institute
Glenn Yago is a senior fellow and founder of the Financial Innovations Labs at the Milken Institute and the senior director of the Milken Innovation Center and Blum Lab for Developing Economies at the Jerusalem Institute. His research has contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets to finance ideas for sustainable development projects by business and social entrepreneurs around the world.
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Ivy Hsu

Senior Associate, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Ivy Hsu is a senior associate of innovative finance at the Milken Institute. During Hsu’s time at the Institute, she has worked on projects around structuring sustainable funding models for new antibiotics to help curb antimicrobial resistance and streamlining the sustainable bond market for municipal issuers.
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Amos Garcia

Senior Director, Asia Programming, Milken Institute International
Amos is a senior director within Milken Institute International, based in Singapore. He leads events in Asia, including the annual Asia Summit and Global Investors' Symposium, as well as the Asia content for the Institute's regional and global events.
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Belinda Chng

Senior Director, Policy and Programs, Asia, Milken Institute International
Belinda Chng is senior director for policy and programs at Milken Institute's Asia office in Singapore. She oversees the office's research, outputs, and knowledge partnerships, including the Financial Innovations Labs in Asia, which promotes financial solutions to overcome economic and social challenges.
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Perry Wong

Managing Director, Research
Perry Wong is managing director, China at the Milken Institute. He specializes in analyzing the structure, industry mix, development, and public policies of a regional economy. His more recent work focuses on regional economic development in greater China and other parts of Asia.

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New Therapies

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Bringing new therapies to patients typically takes more than a decade and on average costs $2.6B per new drug. Despite this investment, just 12% of clinical trials result in an approved treatment. While increased collaboration and investment across a range of disease fields promises to accelerate the pace and reduce costs, there are many barriers to overcome. 

Philanthropy is a critical tool for improving human health, but donors often lack the expertise and tools needed to navigate intentionally rigorous and often complex research and clinical ecosystems. SPARC advisors, in partnership with high-impact philanthropists, have been working across the scientific ecosystem to identify barriers to progress and pinpoint opportunities to strategically engage in the therapeutic development space.  

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Systems Change in Science and Health

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Science needs strategic funding, collaboration, interdisciplinary expertise, and an understanding of how new medicines and tools go from the basic research stage, all the way through to market. Competing priorities, aversion to risk, limited funding streams, and siloed fields make the kinds of breakthroughs needed to benefit human health extraordinarily difficult to achieve.

The Milken Institute Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) is driving field advancement that is changing scientific research and clinical care by bringing together perspectives, expertise, data, and tools to promote intentional support to create a stronger, more equitable system.  

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