Queen’s University of Belfast Foundation was established in 1999. The foundation is a charitable organisation that engages in generating philanthropic support for Queen’s capital development programmes and academic initiatives from private individuals, charitable trusts, and corporations. The work of the Foundation is consistent with the University’s mission to be a world-class university that links Northern Ireland to the global community through the experience offered to students, the contribution made to society by its graduates, and the impact of its research.

This collection features the documentation of two grants given by The Atlantic Philanthropies to the Queen’s University of Belfast Foundation between 1997 and 2014 totalling £83,518,630. The grants featured amount to £4208638 and were given in 2003 and 2012 for projects titled Queen's University of Belfast's Institute of Health Sciences Centre for Experimental Medicine and International Centre for Research on System on a Chip and Advanced Micro-wireless Integration.

The records presented in this collection typify as business records, reports, grant proposals, and printed ephemera. This collection is related to an oral history interview given by Queen’s University of Belfast’s professor Bertus K. Rima. He is an Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine for Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Centre for Infection and Immunity and Emeritus Professor, at the School of Medicine for Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at the Queen’s University of Belfast Foundation.