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Swim Across America grants $900,000 toward gene editing innovation

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Joseph Fraietta

Pietro Genovese

Swim Across America, the nonprofit funding innovative clinical trials and patient-centered programs for cancer, awarded $450,000 grants to two of its beneficiaries, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, to support the work of novel gene and base editing techniques used in advanced cancer research, including targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and cellular therapies. 

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