UC Merced Receives $500K Gift to Advance Genomics Research

Oct 11, 2005

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (GenomeWeb News) - The University of California, Merced has received a $500,000 gift from an anonymous donor to fund the Genome Center, a "high-end, cooperative laboratory" to further the school's genomics research, the school said today.

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