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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Twenty–five medical schools and academic research centers in New York State are collaborating on a cancer research project under the aegis of
a new consortium called the Academic Medicine Development Company (AMDeC). The project is supported by $6 million funding in its first year and aims to advance epidemiological understanding
of genetic and environmental causes of cancer. The work will be carried out in two phases: a pilot study beginning this spring will recruit 5,000 New Yorkers between the ages of 35 and 64
for study over a two–year period. Thereafter, 300,000 people will be monitored and evaluated over a 20–year period. AMDeC member institutions include Albert Einstein Medical College, Beth
Israel Medical Center, Memorial Sloan–Kettering, NYU Medical Center and Rockefeller University. Arnold Levine, president of Rockefeller and head of the AMDeC scientific advisory committee,
says the consortium has been formed to "re–invigorate the City's biomedical research institutions." This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
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New York Cancer Project. _Nat Med_ 5, 6 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/4675 Download citation * Issue Date: January 1999 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/4675 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you
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