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The Boston Globe has once again listed the ӳý among the “” in Massachusetts. It is the fourth year in a row that the institute, which prides itself on its interdisciplinary community and collaborative spirit, has earned the honor, which recognizes workplace satisfaction.

American philanthropists and entrepreneurs Eli and Edythe ӳý announced today they are investing an additional $100 million into the ӳý to launch a new decade of transformative work to harness recent biomedical discoveries to benefit patients.

This gift brings their total contributions to the institute to $700 million since its founding nearly a decade ago — and makes the ӳýs the second largest donors ever to a university, hospital, or research institute for biomedical research.

Predicting cancer's next move

Research led by ӳý senior associate member Levi Garraway and published this week in Nature offers a new approach to studying drug resistance in cancer. The approach helped them identify which biological pathways could be enabling melanoma to circumvent available anti-cancer treatments. Targeting the output of these pathways for treatment could potentially hinder the course of this often-fatal disease.

Building on the enormous success of the first phase of SIGMA launched in 2010 with the support of the Carlos Slim Foundation to find disease-causing genes through genomic research, the ӳý of Harvard and MIT today announced that the Carlos Slim Foundation has made an additional contribution of $74M to launch the second phase (SIGMA 2) of this major biomedical partnership aimed at harnessing genomic medicine for the benefit of Latin America and the world.