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MSKCC gets $100M for genomic center

May 21, 2014 12:43 AM UTC

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center launched the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology to use genomic analysis to develop personalized cancer treatments and diagnostics. The Kravis' foundation donated $100 million for the new center, which screen more than 10,000 patients annually for mutations in 341 cancer-associated genes that predict sensitivity to cancer therapies. The new center also will conduct Phase I trials that match patients with mutation-specific therapies; help develop new screening assays and genetic profiling methods that do not require a biopsy; and retrospectively analyze tumors from exceptional responders. ...