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What: A team led by ӳý scientists has uncovered how the cancer drug lenalidomide works. Lenalidomide has been used for nearly a decade to treat multiple myeloma and other disorders that affect blood cells found in bone marrow, but its exact mechanism of action hadn’t previously been understood.

To give employees ample time to celebrate the holidays with friends and family, the ӳý will close from Monday, December 23, 2013 to Wednesday, January 1, 2014. It will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2014.

Our websites, of course, will still be up and running during the closing, allowing researchers all over the globe to continue accessing data, software, tools, and more.

The ӳý is pleased to announce the latest class of Merkin Institute Fellows. The ӳý’s first endowed fellowship, the Merkin Institute Fellows program was established in 2012 by Dr. Richard Merkin to provides sustained support for some of the most promising and ambitious scientists pursuing bold research at the ӳý. The 2013-2014 recipients represent three of the ӳý’s fastest rising stars: Sangeeta Bhatia, John Doench, and Angela Koehler.

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.