The Sunderland Foundation has given The University of Kansas Cancer Center a $100 million gift to construct a cancer center building.
You may want to know that (a) the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has decided on its first project and (b) it’s known under a neato acronym: NITRO.
President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal and the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 that was passed by the House last month will have a chilling effect on biomedical research, members of the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee said at a hearing May 4.
Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health welcomed State Representative Kevin Boyle and State Senators Jimmy Dillon and Christine Tartaglione to the Fox Chase campus to thank them for their support in securing $1.5 million in funding for the modernization of Fox Chase research facilities.
In a city that in recent years has come to epitomize the growing racial divide in wealth and health outcomes, Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, with help from the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation, is establishing a patient navigation, screening, and education center to serve historically marginalized neighborhoods.
On April 17, Louis Weiner found himself wishing he could be in two places at once—dance at two weddings, as it were.
Ralph Lauren wasn’t interested in an eponymous cancer center when, in 2003, he helped establish the first Ralph Lauren Center in Harlem.
Jed Manocherian wants your attention—but not for himself.
Soon after real estate developer and investor Jed Manocherian started a non-profit that lobbies for biomedical research, he heard about the outsized role Mary Lasker played in shaping government-funded biomedical research in the U.S.
Mary Lasker left a collection of detailed oral histories and a massive archive of documents, kept at Columbia University: 795 boxes and 7 flat boxes, which amount to 353 linear feet.
