The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, will replace its Center for Cancer Research with the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, it announced on 9 October.
Koch, a 67-year-old businessman and MIT alumnus, is battling cancer. He has committed $100 million to help build the facility, which should be completed in 2010 at a cost of $280 million. MIT bent its rules for Koch by committing to build the institute before it had the usual 80% of building costs.
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Cancer institute named after benefactor. Nature 449, 769 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449769b
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