Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Mortimer B. ZuckermanMortimer B. Zuckerman, the real estate developer, owner of The Daily News and philanthropist, has pledged $200 million to endow an interdisciplinary Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.
Prof. Thomas Jessell, joined by Prof. Richard Axel and Prof. Eric Kandel, both Nobel laureates, are founders of the institute, which will be housed at the 450,000-square-foot Jerome L. Greene Science Center now under construction on Columbia's campus in northern Manhattan.
The institute will bring together researchers from Columbia University Medical Center, the faculty of arts and sciences, the Fu Foundation School of Eng ineering and Applied Science and other collaborators in research into the neural sciences and human behavior.
“This country has provided me with extraordinary opportunities,†Mr. Zuckerman said in a news release, “and I am glad for the chance to support scientific leadership in a field I believe is so essential to all our lives.â€
