A $29 million donation from Northwestern trustee Kimberly K. Querrey will enable the launch of a new institute “to catalyze the translation” of academic research into practical medical tools, the University announced Monday.
The Querrey-Simpson Institute for Translational Engineering for Advanced Medical Systems will help fast-track University research through clinical testing processes for new technologies, according to the news release.
QSI-TEAMS will advance work being done at the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, the NU bioengineering institute founded in 2016, which develops biomedical products, including 150 disclosed inventions, and comprises faculty, postdoctoral fellows, undergraduate and graduate students.
McCormick Prof. John Rogers, who runs QSIB, will be in charge of QSI-TEAMS. Rogers led a team of NU engineers in designing the world’s smallest pacemaker, a device named one of the “Best Inventions of 2025” by Time magazine.
Querrey has a record of financially supporting biomedical research at NU and beyond.
In 2022, along with the Louis Simpson Trust, named after her late husband and NU trustee Louis Simpson, Querrey gifted $121 million to the University. That same year, an epigenetics center with her name began awarding the Kimberly Prize for biochemistry, the largest in the United States at $250,000.
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