$100M pledge for cancer research

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The Starr Foundation, one of the country’s largest philanthropies, pledged $100 million yesterday to cancer research involving collaboration among four institutions in New York and one in Massachusetts.

The gift will go to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College, all within a few blocks of each other on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island; and the Broad Institute, a research center created by Harvard and M.I.T.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/nyregion/22cancer.html