Surfing the Web uncovered these news items worth sharing:

• The New York Genome Center (NYGC) has been awarded $40 million, over four years, to create a Center for Common Disease Genomics, which will establish a collaborative large-scale genome sequencing program. Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) is a member of NYGC.

• A group of scientists from the University of Washington’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSK, Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Stanford University’s School of Medicine have come together to devise a microscope that can see cell detail without having to extract it from a patient’s body. Details can be found in their study.

• Read an interview featuring Dr. Francesca Gany from MSK. Dr. Gany is an Internist and Chief, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service. Learn more about this initiative which was launched in 2011.

• MSK investigator, Dr. James Harding is one of five recipients of an NCCN (National Comphrensive Cancer Network) award grant.  These five investigators will study the effectiveness of enzalutamide in mantle cell lymphoma, as well as endometrial, hepatocellular and prostate cancers.