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  Samuel Waxman The Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) at Mount Sinai and the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF) are launching a unique research program that will fund collaborations between TCI physician-scientists and colleagues from other established cancer research institutions to address the rising rates of cancer due to aging around the world. The partnership will enhance the impact of both TCI and SWCRF through cross-institutional, cutting-edge research on abnormal gene function that causes cancer in order to uncover the link between aging and cancer and identify targeted therapies. Both organizations will contribute equally to this pivotal, two-year, $1 million research program. And work together to prioritize, evaluate, and award research grants submitted for review by both TCI-affiliated and non-TCI-affiliated scientists throughout the two-year term of this collaboration, which starts this year. “Science works better with collaboration,” says Samuel Waxman, MD, CE...