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The Boston Globe: Harvard Receives $25M Gift To Build Genomics Center
Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Friday, December 01, 2000
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Harvard University has received a $25 million gift from an alumnus to build a Center for Genomics Research, whose director says it will focus on "the last and most exciting frontier of human knowledge."
The center, launched last year and already under construction on the Cambridge campus, will be named for the donor, Charles T. "Ted" Bauer, a 1942 Harvard graduate and cofounder of AIM Management Group Inc. of Houston.
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said the gift, announced yesterday, is among the largest Harvard has received.
Genomics is the study of the entire set of DNA instructions, or genome, of living things, including humans, and is aimed at discovering how the DNA sequences generate proteins that interact to build and operate organisms.
In the commercial sector, biotech and pharmaceutical companies are exploiting genomics in hopes of designing more effective and safer drugs tailored to match individuals' specific genes.
Andrew Murray, director of the Bauer Center for Genome Research, said the emphasis would be less on practical applications and more on asking ''fundamental questions about how life evolved'' and ''how cells and organisms work.'' This area of inquiry, he said, ''is the last and most exciting frontier of human knowledge.''
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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/335/metro/Harvard_receives_25m_gift_to_build_genomics_center+.shtml
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