Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA77598-06

描述(由申请人提供)：明尼苏达大学癌症中心是NCI指定的综合性癌症中心，致力于为明尼苏达州及周边地区的公民进行癌症研究、教育和患者护理。我们的使命是创造一个合作的环境，促进对癌症的病因、预防、检测和治疗的了解。癌症中心的范围是全面的，包括人口、基础、临床和外展研究。癌症中心是一个矩阵中心，目前有151名研究成员。研究成员今年获得了7100万美元的全国同行评审拨款支持。在过去的五年里，该中心在新的教员、研究人员和研究支持方面进行了重大扩张。该中心有八个既定的研究项目：乳腺癌研究、预防和病因学、癌症发生和化学预防、癌症进展和转移、癌症的遗传机制、免疫学、移植生物学和治疗以及转化研究计划。该中心有九个共享资源核心。研究成员领导着儿童和成人癌症的基础、转化、临床和基于人群的研究。明尼苏达大学癌症中心在这一地区是独一无二的，它结合了(1)强大的以大学为中心的基础病因学和翻译研究，以及(2)广泛的基于人群的癌症易感性、预防、早期发现、筛查和行为研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Minnesota Cancer Center is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to cancer research, education, and patient care for the citizens of the state of Minnesota and surrounding region. Our mission is to create a collaborative environment that advances knowledge about the causes, prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. The Cancer Center is comprehensive in its breadth, encompassing population, basic and clinical and outreach studies. The Cancer Center is a matrix center, currently with 151 Research Members. The Research Members have $71 million this year in nationally peer-reviewed grant support. The center has undergone major expansion in the past five years in new faculty investigators and research support. The center has eight established research programs: Breast Cancer Research, Prevention and Etiology, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention, Cancer Progression and Metastasis, Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer, Immunology, Transplant Biology and Therapy, and Translational Research Program. The Center has nine shared resource cores. The Research Members are leading basic, translational, clinical and population-based research in childhood and adult cancer. The University of Minnesota Cancer Center is unique to this region in the combination of (1) strong University-centered basic etiologic and translational research, and (2) extensive population based studies of cancer susceptibility, prevention, early detection, screening and behavior.