Weill Family Foundation Launches $125M Cancer Research Hub to Advance Immunotherapy

The Weill Cancer Hub East, uniting four top institutions, will focus on innovative treatments including tumor microenvironment reprogramming and emerging therapeutics.

The Weill Family Foundation has donated $50 million, matched by partner institutions, bringing total funding for the new Weill Cancer Hub East to over $125 million.
The hub will unite Princeton University, The Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to advance cancer immunotherapy research.
Research efforts will focus on reprogramming the tumor microenvironment, exploring the role of nutrition and metabolism, and investigating emerging therapies like GLP-1 agonists.
A scientific steering committee and leadership committee have been established to guide the hub's research strategy and activities.
This initiative builds on the foundation's history of funding multidisciplinary biomedical research, including the Weill Neurohub established in 2019.

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