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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.