"Since mid 2006, Simmons has given funds to a chronic kidney disease research team led by Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh to examine predictors of longevity in chronic kidney disease.Subsequently, the "Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology" was created, first in "Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute" at "Harbor-UCLA Medical Center" then in UC Irvine Medical Center at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, in Orange, CA, which has published a large number of scientific reports and articles.