
Advance the biosciences
University Priority
Innovation in the biosciences is essential to helping us live longer and healthier lives.
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Lurie Cancer Center is one of only 57 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and a Lead Academic Participating Site in the National Clinical Trials Network. Its strengths include a hematopoietic stem cell transplant program that performs 350+ transplants annually, Illinois’s first and only proton therapy center and OncoSET, a pioneering precision-medicine program.

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McNally researches genetics of cardiovascular and neuromuscular disorders and studies genetic mechanisms responsible for inherited human diseases.
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Latest round of strategic seed funding propels innovations in imaging, brain health, autoimmune therapies and more, bringing total support to $8 million

Simpson Querrey Brain Health Institute launches with nearly $25 million in support from Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey

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