New cancer building feted
Hundreds of members of the MIT community gathered Friday afternoon to celebrate the dedication of the new headquarters of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, a pioneering cancer research center that brings life scientists and engineers together in one building. The event was presided over by John Reed, chair of the MIT Corporation.Institute Professor Phillip Sharp, a molecular biologist and member of the institute, said celebrating the dedication was “a dream come true.”The institute will build on the decades of work that cancer biologists have done unraveling the molecular mechanisms of the disease, Sharp said. “Now is the right time, and the Koch Institute is the right place, for the science of cancer to join the engineering of nanoparticles and new materials, the engineering of the immune system, the engineering of cellular pathways to create new knowledge about cancer and new treatments. I am thrilled...