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In 2016 his $50 million, matched by Sidney Kimmel and others to $125 million, launched a Johns Hopkins institute that put more than a hundred scientists and clinicians to work on cancer immunotherapy.
Michael Bloomberg's gifts to Johns Hopkins, his alma mater, exceeded $1.2 billion by 2016 according to the university. In March 2016 he gave $50 million, matched by $50 million from Sidney Kimmel and $25 million from a dozen other donors, to found the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, uniting more than 100 Hopkins scientists and clinicians on the biology of immune checkpoints, T-cell engineering and the tumour microenvironment, in coordination with the national Cancer Moonshot then led by Vice President Biden. The institute built on Hopkins work that had helped establish PD-1 blockade and the use of mismatch-repair deficiency as a marker for who responds to it. His broader public health philanthropy, on tobacco control in particular, bears on cancer prevention worldwide.
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Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.