Audrey Gruss, Founder of Hope for Depression Research Foundation

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Audrey Gruss, Founder of Hope for Depression Research Foundation.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Hope-for-Depression-Research/281962671

Audrey Gruss is the Founder and Chairman of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation. She started the foundation with $30m of her own money to fund pioneering neuroscience research by creating a Depression Task Force which is an outstanding collaboration of seven leading scientists, at the frontiers of brain science, from different research institutions across the U.S. and Canada. 

Audrey is one of very few women working in science, or science funding. Audrey lives on the Upper West Side with her husband. 

Audrey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, from the University of Haifa. She graduated with honors from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.  A  Fellow of Tufts University, she established the Audrey Butvay Gruss Science Award for women. Audrey is President  of  The  Audrey  and  Martin  Gruss   Foundation, which  her  husband established twenty-five years ago to support charitable activities in the  cultural  arts, education and medical research. Through the foundation they have donated $5m to fund the The Audrey & Martin Gruss Heart & Stroke Center in Southampton Hospital.