Fair to Offer Information about Research Opportunities at NCI-Designated Cancer Center
Having just received a five-year, $50 million core center support grant from the National Cancer Institute, the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) will hold an information fair on Tuesday, October 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. by the Kresge atrium and in Kresge 110. The fair will feature poster presentations to introduce HSPH scientists to services available through the center's core facilities. Representatives of each core facility will be present to answer questions.
The new DF/HCC expanded the focus of the Dana-Farber Cancer Center to
encompass all Harvard cancer-related research efforts. The NCI-designated,
comprehensive cancer center is now the largest private cancer research
effort in the nation, involving nearly 800 scientists from HSPH, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute, HMS, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
The center offers 18 core facilities that are organized by the following topics: biostatistics, cancer pharmacology, cell manipulation, community practice, cytogenetics, health communication, high-throughput DNA sequencing, high-throughput polymorphism detection, human pathology for breast cancer, human pathology for hematopathology, human pathology for prostate cancer, human pathology for neuro-oncology, in situ hybridization, measurement, rapid case registry, mouse special services cryopreservation, rodent histopathology, and vectors.
DF/HCC also supports disease- and discipline-based programs that approach a subject from the angles of basic, clinical, and population sciences.
In September, DF/HCC received the final word that it will be granted $50 million over the next five years from NCI to help fund the infrastructure of the center. DF/HCC member institutions conduct more than $235 million in research annually.
"The grant will help foster interdisciplinary research in this community of scholars," said Nancy Mueller, professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and associate director for population science for the center. "By having these shared resources, we can facilitate ongoing projects and new research."
Go to www.dfhcc.harvard.edu
for more information about the center.
