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TGen Nets $50K Grant for Breast Cancer Studies

Jul 16, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Translational Genomics Research Institute has received a $50,000 donation from a Phoenix, Ariz.-based foundation focused on funding advanced-stage breast cancer research, TGen said Wednesday.

TGen said that the funding from the Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation will go toward hiring a bioinformatician to work on the institute's Molecular Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells Project, and that the funding was matched with other donations to the TGen Foundation.

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