The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $4 million, five-year P30 grant from NIH and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to establish a Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
