SQI is one of many Northwestern initiatives made possible by University trustees Louis A. Simpson ’58 and Kimberly K. Querrey. Others include the institute’s Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine; the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine; and the forthcoming Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center.