| This article was originally published in in 2016 .Ìý |
The new Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, created thanks to a $20 million gift from the Larry and Judy Tanenbaum family, will be a catalyst for the Montreal Neurological Institute’s daring open science initiatives.
Earlier this year, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) announced an ambitious – and, in many ways, unprecedented – commitment to the principles of Open Science.
The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings – and all the data associated with that research – widely available. While there have been other largescale Open Science initiatives – usually involving several partners collaborating in a specific area – The Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to Open Science.
That commitment just received a huge boost, thanks to a $20 million gift from the Larry and Judy Tanenbaum fa