The New York Genome Center

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n11/full/nbt.2429.html

Nancy J. Kelley is founding executive director of the New York Genome Center (NYGC), an independent, nonprofit research organization whose mission is “to transform genomic research and healthcare for New York and the world”. Institutional founding members include Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Cornell University/Weill Cornell Medical College, The Jackson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York University/NYU School of Medicine, North Shore-LIJ Health System, The Rockefeller University, and Stony Brook University. NYGC chose Illumina as its founding technology collaborator. Nature Biotechnologytalked to Kelley about NYGC's plan to become one of the largest genomics and bioinformatics facilities in North America.