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Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai
The Foundation has sought to advance women’s health research through the establishment of new institutes, and bring drug therapies to market by awarding translational research projects. Through the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards at Harvard Medical School, the Foundation has accelerated therapeutics research at the school and its affiliated hospitals, helped investigators navigate the intricacies of intellectual property development and licensing, and spurred the creation of new companies.
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In 2020, as part of the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards at Harvard Medical School, the Foundation granted two $1 million donations to two professors from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The funding supports new therapeutics to prevent cancer-associated blood clots, and a new gene therapy approach to serve as an alternative to insulin therapy.
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From left: Judy De Leon, medical assistant, Ann-Marcia Tukpah, clinical fellow in Pulmonology, and Fotine Liakopoulos, medical assistant, converse outside a patient room in the COVID Recovery Center, located in the Lung Center
In 2020, as part of the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards at Harvard Medical School, the Foundation granted a $1 million donation to a research project at Brigham and Women's Hospital to develop novel biologics to target the underlying cellular mechanisms that drive severe asthma and other inflammatory diseases.
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In 2018, the Foundation established the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai in New York City. The medical center offers a full range of health services. Through the Women’s Cancer Program, patients receive onsite tests, procedures, imaging, radiation and chemotherapy treatments, as well as wellness and support services from social workers and nutritionists. The Foundation has also supported the hospital's Ovarian Cancer Translational Research Program and the Cancer Care Facility for Women and has supported the ongoing work of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai.
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www.bidmc.org
In 2020, as part of the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards at Harvard Medical School, the Foundation granted two $1 million donations to two professors from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The funding supports new therapeutics to prevent cancer-associated blood clots, and a new gene therapy approach to serve as an alternative to insulin therapy.
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From left: Judy De Leon, medical assistant, Ann-Marcia Tukpah, clinical fellow in Pulmonology, and Fotine Liakopoulos, medical assistant, converse outside a patient room in the COVID Recovery Center, located in the Lung Center
In 2020, as part of the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards at Harvard Medical School, the Foundation granted a $1 million donation to a research project at Brigham and Women's Hospital to develop novel biologics to target the underlying cellular mechanisms that drive severe asthma and other inflammatory diseases.
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www.mountsinai.org
In 2018, the Foundation established the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai in New York City. The medical center offers a full range of health services. Through the Women’s Cancer Program, patients receive onsite tests, procedures, imaging, radiation and chemotherapy treatments, as well as wellness and support services from social workers and nutritionists. The Foundation has also supported the hospital's Ovarian Cancer Translational Research Program and the Cancer Care Facility for Women and has supported the ongoing work of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai.
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The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia.
