Forbes August 7, 2024
By bringing together top doctors, scientists and engineers, this medical database billionaire believes he can succeed where major governments have failed and cure one of the world’s wiliest viruses.
It’s opening day at the Ragon Institute’s new building, a sparkling 323,000-square-foot glass-and-steel edifice on Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Governor Maura Healey, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and presidents past and present of MIT, Harvard and Mass General Brigham are sipping lemon spritzers and nibbling hors d’oeuvres. A choir of a dozen scientists and staffers starts singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Everyone is here to toast Phillip “Terry” Ragon, the billionaire founder of software company InterSystems, and his wife, Susan, also an executive at the firm. The Ragons have...
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