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Memorial Sloan Kettering and Cornell University to launch nanomedicine center

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MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER and Cornell University are opening a new $10 million Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The MSKCC-Cornell Center for Translation of Cancer Nanomedicines is funded with an $8.2 million grant from the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer and more than $1.9 million from MSKCC. The center—which will have one facility...

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