MD Anderson will use the funding to build two new facilities as well as for recruitment and research, according to an Aug. 21 news release from the center.
$5.9 million will go toward the launch of two new core facilities at MD Anderson: the Advanced Spatial Genomics Core facility ($2,999,993) and the Texas Decision Science Core facility ($2,995,778).
The Advanced Spatial Genomics Core facility will work to connect pathology, cell biology and genomics to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The Texas Decision Science Core facility will be a collaborative facility for MD Anderson’s Decision Support Lab and institutions in the UTHealth Houston Clinical Translation Hub.
Since its inception, the CPRIT has awarded $645 million to MD Anderson, amounting to 18% of the nearly $3.6 billion the institute has awarded in total.
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