For 34 years, Johns Hopkins spent more on research than any other university in the country, amounting to $2.106 billion in 2012 alone. And now you can add to that the $90 million that the university’s Kimmel Cancer Center just received as part of a massive half-billion gift from Ludwig Cancer Research.
Hopkins scientists at the Kimmel Center have received Ludwig money before; in 2006, they used a $20 million gift from the foundation to create one of the first genomic maps of cancer.
This time around, the gift — which totals $540 million — is shared between Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Kenneth Kinzler, Hopkins professor of oncology, says that the center’s current research focuses on early detection and prevention of cancer; the money will be used to further these projects. It will also count toward Johns Hopkins’ massive fundraising goal ($4.5 billion by the end of 2017).
