Gift to Johns Hopkins University will go to medical facility

From The Baltimore Sun: Officials with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore say they will use a $30 million gift from a former student to build a home for a center for personalized medicine, a growing field that uses genetic information to tailor treatments for cancer and other ailments. The gift from John C. Malone, chairman of Liberty Media Corp., is the largest ever made to the Whiting School of Engineering and will help link scientists from many fields in medical research.