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History
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was launched by MIT in October of 2007 and represents a new research model in which MIT cancer biologists and technologists will be brought together in a new purpose built facility focused on cancer solutions. The cancer biologists involved are derived from Center for Cancer Research (CCR) which was founded in 1974 by Salvador Luria Salvador Luria. The enginneers and technologists involved are derived from departments across campus. As partnership between the Schools of Science and Engineering and an MIT Institutional Priority Program, KI renews MIT's longstanding commitment  to unraveling the mystery of cancer and inventing new solutions. Expected are new ways to detect, treat and eventually prevent cancer.

David H. Koch provided $100M in kick-off funding to create a the ~300k square foot facility that will open in December 2010. The facility will be the home to approximately 25 faculty laboratories and s collection of fifteen service centers in an embedded Biotechnology Center. The inter-disciplinary workforce of the KI will represent approximately 500 individuals that are housed within the facility but also involve a significant number of extramural laboratories on campus and clinical collaborators in oncology treatment centers elsewhere.

KI is one of seven National Cancer Institute-designated basic (non-clinical) research centers in the U.S.  KI fosters and funds interdisciplinary collaborations in five key research areas, 1) nanotherapeutics, 2) detection and monitoring, 3) metastasis, 4) mapping drug sensitivity & resistance pathways and 5) cancer immunology.  Since KI does not provide patient care in-house, the institute has established partnerships with top oncology centers in Boston and beyond.

The Koch Institute boasts an illustrious membership— David Baltimore, Robert S. Langer, Stephen J. Lippard, Salvador Luria, Phillip A. Sharp, Robert A. Weinberg
 * 2 Nobel Laureates currently: H. Robert Horvitz, Phillip A. Sharp
 * 3 Nobel Laureates are former members: Salvador Luria, David Baltimore, Susumu Tonegawa
 * 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences: Herman N. Eisen, Nancy H. Hopkins, H. Robert Horvitz, David E. Housman, Richard O. Hynes, Rudolf Jaenisch, Eric S. Lander, Robert S. Langer,  Susan L. Lindquist, Stephen J. Lippard, Harvey F. Lodish, Terry L. Orr-Weaver, Phillip A. Sharp, Robert A. Weinberg
 * 6 current and former faculty have been awarded the National Medal of Science:
 * 7 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators: Angelika Amon, Stephen P. Bell, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, H. Robert Horvitz, Richard O. Hynes, Darrell J. Irvine, Tyler Jacks


 * National Academy of Engineering: Robert S. Langer

The Koch Institute is home to faculty members from various departments, including Biology, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering. Koch Institute faculty teach classes at MIT, as well as train graduate and undergraduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows.

Research
The Koch Institute’s research areas will provide components to improve cancer detection and treatments. The research areas are:


 * Nanotechnology therapy


 * Devices and monitoring


 * Metastasis


 * Pathways & Resistance


 * Immune System