Help fund the development of DRACOs, a broad-spectrum antiviral that has cured every viral disease they've tried it on.
Viruses are the cause of diseases like the common cold, chicken pox, small pox, herpes, dengue, and AIDS. We have drugs to kill cells, called antibiotics, but few options to kill viruses.
Viruses are much different from cells. Cells eat and reproduce on their own, so they have lots of machinery for digesting their food and building new cells. Viruses are just little bits of genetic material wrapped up in a hard shell. When they encounter a cell, they attach and inject the material, hijacking the cell's machinery. Now, instead of building new cells, the cell builds viruses---hundreds or thousands of new copies. Once the cell runs starves to death and falls apart, the viruses inside float out to infect other cells.
As you might expect, the genetic material from viruses is very different from that of cells. When a cell is infected, it starts producing long double-stranded RNA (dsRNA); healthy cells do not.
Dr. Todd Rider has developed a class of drugs called DRACOs that do nothing inside normal cells, but in the presence of dsRNA they trigger the "cell suicide" mechanism, causing an infected cell to die before it can produce many viruses.
Rider has demonstrated the effectiveness of DRACOs in many trials, both in tissue grown in dishes and in mice. The trouble now is attracting enough attention and funding to do the initial clinical trials in humans---in the first phase, demonstrating that the drugs do no harm to healthy individuals; and in the second phase, demonstrating enough promise on a small number of people that the government will fund a large study.