Ludwig Cancer Research gives $90 million to MIT
MIT has received $90 million from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder Daniel K. Ludwig, a gift that aims to transform basic research on metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread from a primary tumor to distant sites in the body. The gift — one of the largest in the Institute’s history — adds considerable strength to MIT’s interdisciplinary approach to cancer research.The Ludwig Center at MIT is one of six centers to receive a total of $540 million in new financial support from Ludwig. The other Ludwig Centers are housed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the medical schools at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago.The gift adds to endowments created in 2006 to establish individual Ludwig Centers at each institution. The Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology at MIT is housed within the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer...