A Public-Private Partnership Between NCI and Avon
pink ribbon On October 1, 2002, NCI and the Avon Foundation announced six grant awards from their public-private partnership to fund clinical research on breast cancer. These initial “Progress for...
View ArticleWhat Are SPOREs?
pink ribbon In 1992, the NCI established the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) to promote interdisciplinary research and to speed the exchange between basic and clinical science to...
View ArticleCollaborations in Cancer Research: Tools for Partnership and Commercialization
Taxol Molecule “As we move to a more personalized era of oncology, it is clear that we will require multiple agents to target multiple pathways in the same patient. Facilitating that future will...
View ArticlePrivate-Public Partnerships in Cancer Vaccine Research
Taxol Molecule Even though the National Cancer Institute is the leading Federal government agency for cancer research, it is hardly the sole contributor in the fight against cancer. Other government...
View ArticleKeeping Tabs on Cancer Rates
Credit: NCI (Ernie Branson, photographer) The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer that was released today shows continued declines in both the rate of new cancer cases (incidence) and...
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