New York Genome Center Opens Doors

New York City-based New York Genome Center is now open and ready for researchers to begin solving some of the most pressing puzzles surrounding illness and genes, according to a report from The Epoch Times.

The $54 million center will employ research teams looking for diagnostic and treatment tools for diseases with genetic components, such as cancer, according to the report.

The center was funded by a number of high-profile benefactors, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($2.5 million), David Rockefeller ($1 million), the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, The City of New York ($5 million) and twelve founding institutions.

The twelve founding institutions collaborated to plan the center and each contributed $2.5 million to the process. These institutions include:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, N.Y.)
• Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory
• Columbia University (New York City)
• Cornell University/Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City)
• The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine)
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York City)
• Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York City)
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
• New York University/NYU School of Medicine
• North Shore-LIJ Health System (New York City)
• The Rockefeller University (New York City)
• Stony Brook (N.Y.) University

Additional institutional members include The American Museum of Natural History, Hospital for Special Surgery and The New York Stem Cell Foundation, all in New York City, and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., according to the report. 

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