The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation funds cutting edge science and medical research. The foundation also supports education in all fields including early education and youth programs. The foundation established the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University in 2003 with a $30 million dollar grant. The director of the Program is Martin Nowak, Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard. The Program studies the evolution of molecular biology with the use of mathematics.
In addition to sponsoring science research, the Foundation holds regular conferences to bring together the best minds on significant scientific subjects. Recent conferences have covered such topics as gravity, global threats to the earth and the evolution of language. Scientists have gathered from all over the world to share their thoughts and have included several Nobel Laureates. Jeffrey Epstein Science also hosts a science forum, hosting discussions on a wide range of scientific topics. Readers participate from around the world.
Many universities and institutes have received funding from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation including, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, New York University, Cornell University, Pepperdine University, Ohio State University, Stanford University, UCLA, The Santa Fe Institute, Rockefeller University and Penn University.
The Foundation has also had the priviledge of sponsoring many prominent scientists including Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Eric Lander, George Church, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Marvin Minsky, Lawrence Krauss, Lee Smolin and Gregory Benford and Nobel laureates, Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek.