USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORT

描述(由申请人提供)：南加州大学南加州大学/诺里斯综合癌症中心成立于1971年，自1973年以来一直得到癌症中心核心支持补助金的支持。它已发展成为癌症研究、治疗、预防和教育的主要区域和国家资源。中心设施已经在NCI、大学和小Kenneth Morris Jr.的支持下建造和发展。癌症医院，这是癌症中心不可或缺的一部分。该中心在1996年经历了一次重大的扩建，增加了诺曼·托平塔，目前正在建设第三个设施--哈林·莫里斯翻译研究塔。该中心的191名成员被组织成五个主题研究项目和五个翻译研究项目，其中包括一个发展治疗学的“桥梁”项目。这些主题项目由分子遗传学、表观遗传学和调控、肿瘤微环境、癌症流行病学和癌症控制研究领域的高级研究人员领导。这些翻译项目专注于我们的多学科研究工作，涉及发育疗法、泌尿生殖系癌症、胃肠癌、女性癌症以及血液和病毒相关的恶性肿瘤。此申请用于：1)为负责规划和监督我们的研究工作的中心高级领导层提供部分工资支持；2)支持项目规划和评估，以保持中心在癌症研究方面的领先地位；3)支持中心的行政基础设施；4)部分支持中心的13个共享资源，以促进我们进行同行评议的研究；以及5)支持发展基金，以帮助我们在我们的扩张目标领域招募新的研究人员。癌症中心核心支持赠款的持续资助将使我们能够巩固我们在基础研究和基于人群的研究方面的优势，并将我们的潜在专业知识转化为强大的、同行评议资助的研究项目，重点关注这个国家的主要后果癌症。癌症中心成员目前持有总计9100万美元的直接费用赠款，其中4000万美元来自NCI(不包括CCSG)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California was founded in 1971 and has been continuously supported by a Cancer Center Core Support Grant since 1973. It has developed into a major regional and national resource for cancer research, treatment, prevention and education. Center facilities have been built and developed with support from the NCI, the University and the Kenneth Morris Jr. Cancer Hospital, which is an integral part of the Cancer Center. The Center underwent a major expansion with the addition of the Norman Topping Tower in 1996 and is currently building a third facility, the Harlyne Morris Translational Research Tower. The Center's 191 members are organized into five thematic and five translational research programs, including a "bridge" program in developmental therapeutics. The thematic programs are headed by senior investigators in the fields of molecular genetics, epigenetics and regulation, tumor microenvironment, cancer epidemiology and cancer control research. The translational programs, which provide focus to our multidisciplinary research efforts, are in developmental therapeutics, genitourinary cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, women's cancers and hematologic and viral-associated malignancies. This application is for: 1) partial salary support for the Center's senior leadership, who are responsible for planning and overseeing our research efforts; 2) support for program planning and evaluation to keep the Center at the forefront of cancer research; 3) support for the administrative infrastructure of the Center; 4) partial support for the Center's 13 shared resources which facilitate the conduct of our peer-reviewed research; and 5) support for developmental funds to help us recruit new investigators in areas we have targeted for expansion. Continued funding from the Cancer Center Core Support Grant will allow us to build on our strengths in basic and population-based research and to translate our underlying expertise into strong, peer-reviewed funded research programs focused on cancers of major consequence in this country. Cancer Center members currently hold grants totaling $91 million in direct costs, with $40 million of that coming from NCI (all exclusive of the CCSG).