Billionaire Bill Ackman donates $400 million to brain research: shares heartbreaking story of daughter's coma, says he wants cure, not Nobel Prize winners

Bill Ackman commits $400 million to brain research after daughter's brain hemorrhage Billionaire Bill Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman, announced their new commitment of $400 million to establish a new non-profit institute dedicated to brain research, rehabilitation, recovery and human longevity. The drive for this massive donation came from a tragic incident that shook Ackman. Sharing the heartbreaking story of their daughter's sudden brain hemorrhage, Bill Ackman revealed how he learned more about it and how he decided at that time only that he would make sure that the facilities are available to everyone."At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her."This was the beginning of a long journey which started with Lucy being non-responsive because of a massive brain h...