Cancer Center Support Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：明尼苏达大学癌症中心（UMCC）是一个NCI指定的综合癌症中心，致力于癌症研究，教育和明尼苏达州及周边地区公民的患者护理。自1997年第一次获奖以来，会员和研究基础都有了巨大的增长。2007年，我们有225个成员，全国同行审查的支持总额超过9500万美元。相比之下，2002年有151个成员和7 000万美元，1997年有98个成员和3 900万美元。因此，在10年内，UMCC的成员和同行评审的研究基础增加了一倍多。UMCC的使命是：创造一个协作的环境，推进有关癌症的原因，预防，检测和治疗的知识;应用这些知识来照顾我们的病人;并与其他科学家，学生，专业人士和社区分享我们的发现。为了实现这些目标，癌症中心的会员分为七个项目：预防和病因学，致癌和化学预防，癌症的遗传机制，肿瘤生物学和进展，免疫学，妇女癌症，移植生物学和治疗。十个共享资源支持这项研究。在上一个支持期间，任命了一位新的UMCC主任，并改变了行政结构，以促进其成员的研究，促进癌症的多学科方法，为癌症研究提供基础设施支持，并领导创建新的方法和战略，以降低癌症发病率和死亡率。学术健康中心和明尼苏达大学承认UMCC是一所大型公立研究型大学中非常成功的矩阵组织，并承诺积极努力帮助其实现目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Minnesota Cancer Center (UMCC) is a NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to cancer research, education, and patient care for the citizens of the state of Minnesota and surrounding region. Since the time of the first award in 1997, there has been tremendous growth of the membership and research base. In 2007 we have 225 members with nationally peer-reviewed support totaling over $95 million. This compares to 151 members and $70 million in 2002 and 98 members and $39 million in 1997. Thus, in 10 years, the UMCC has more than doubled our membership and peer-reviewed research base. The mission of UMCC is: to create a collaborative environment that advances knowledge about the causes, prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer; to apply that knowledge to caring for our patients; and to share our discoveries with other scientists, students, professionals, and the community. To achieve these goals the Cancer Center membership is organized into seven programs: Prevention and Etiology, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention, Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer, Tumor Biology and Progression, Immunology, Women's Cancer, and Transplant Biology and Therapy. Ten shared resources support this research. During the last period of support, a new UMCC Director was named and changes in the administrative structure were created to facilitate the research of its members, to foster multidisciplinary approaches to cancer, to provide infrastructure support for the conduct of cancer research, and to lead in the creation of new methods and strategies to reduce cancer incidence and mortality. The Academic Health Center and the University of Minnesota acknowledge the UMCC as an exceptionally successful matrix organization in a large public research university, and are pledged to work aggressively to help it achieve its goals.