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The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation provides grants for medical research of practical benefit.  It focuses on initiatives to strengthen research on health issues, to promote research leadership, and to put new knowledge to work for public benefit.

The Foundation supports work in a wide range of disciplines aimed at improving mental and physical health, advancing clinical interventions and the delivery of health services, and improving community and public health status.

The Foundation is particularly interested in funding research that has the potential for a direct, near term impact to improve health and in supporting initiatives designed to promote the transfer of knowledge to useful applications.  Most of the Foundation’s grants are made to Connecticut institutions.

The Donaghue Foundation was established in 1991 by the will of Ethel Donaghue in memory of her parents

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