Harvard gets $40 million grant for cancer research


CAMBRIDGE – The National Cancer Institute has awarded Harvard University a $40 million grant to develop a research center called a Molecular Target Laboratory to develop chemicals to be used to track proteins to find out what they do in the body and to determine which chemicals might be useful as drugs, the Boston Globe reported. Harvard has been working for the last five years on the complex interactions of thousands of proteins at the Longwood Avenue quadrangle of its medical school in Boston. Harvard was chosen for the award by NCI’s Office of Cancer Genomics. It cited Harvard’s Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, which has built a library of 200,000 synthetic chemicals as one of the reasons it chose to give the award to Harvard rather than one of the other competing universities, including MIT and Yale.

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