PICI extends ‘crazy idea’ funding to two more cancer centers

With his Parker Institute for Most cancers Immunotherapy, Sean Parker has been constructing a dream workforce of most cancers researchers. Since 2016, the Parker Institute — generally known as PICI for brief — has poured lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} into six analysis facilities that it’s created at a number of the prime tutorial establishments within the nation and folded luminaries just like the CAR-T pioneer Carl June and Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison into its community.

Now, in its sixth yr, PICI is increasing its attain into two extra facilities that began this fall on the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco and Boston’s Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute. Scientists there’ll be part of the community of researchers on the six different PICI facilities together with ones at Stanford College, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and MD Anderson Most cancers Heart, mentioned Parker, a co-founder of Napster who based PICI with $250 million of his personal cash and has since put lots of of thousands and thousands extra into PICI.