Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital, is making a new investment into brain injury research. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
NEW YORK — If you’re blind, Bill Ackman wants to help you see again.
That is the ambitious plan the billionaire is pursuing with the Ackman Oxman Institute, a new institution in New York City that will act as a hub for brain injury research, including brain-computer interfaces that can help people move, speak, and connect to digital devices through brain activity.
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