Johns Hopkins gets $30 million to study personalized cancer medicine
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center announced Monday that it has established a Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine with a $30 million gift from the Richmond, Va.-based Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research.
The money will further Hopkins' research into technologies that can pinpoint genetic characteristics of a patient's cancer so therapies can be tailor-made.
The aim is to avoid hit-and-miss and one-size-fits-all approaches for the annual 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with cancer, to use the right drugs for treatment, and even prevent some cancers.
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