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SINGAPORE: A new cancer research centre has opened and it aims to take an integrated approach to studying cancers endemic to Asian populations.
Housed at the National University of Singapore, local and internationally-known scientists will look at leukaemia, colorectal and breast cancers, from development to treatment.
The Cancer Research Centre of Excellence is one of three such centres approved for funding by the National Research Foundation and Education Ministry, and will have S$172 million for its programmes over the next seven years.
It is located at the Centre for Life Sciences, but will move to the Centre for Translational Medicine - situated next to the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine - when it is completed in 2010.
It currently has 125 researchers and plans to increase the number to 250, and it will train 100 graduates in its first five years.
- CNA/yt
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