For Cancer Researchers

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Resources to Help You Conduct Cancer Research

As a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, we dedicate significant resources toward developing research programs, faculty and facilities that will lead to better and innovative approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Biological Sciences Division
CCC Intranet
Steven Chmura, MD with brain scan
Membership

Learn about the expectations for membership in the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the many benefits for our members.
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Core Facilities

The Biological Sciences Division provides shared technologies through Core Facilities, which provide specialized services in the support of research as well as serving as educational resources for the UChicago community.

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Cancer Research Programs

Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators are organized into four integrated scientific programs. Each program focuses on promising research paths.
Nishant Agrawal, MD, and patient
Clinical Research Support

An expert team of researchers, state-of-the-art equipment and considerable financial resources are required to unravel cancer’s vast complexity.
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Funding Opportunities

Learn about funding and award opportunities to fuel cancer research.
Eileen Dolan, PhD, and colleague in lab
Research Training Opportunities

We offer rich research opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral training among a wide range of disciplines.

Cancer Articles

The Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center. UCM has earned its third, three-year recertification from QOPI® Certification Program LLC.
UChicago Medicine receives third consecutive QOPI® certification for top-level cancer care
Andrea King, PhD, and Mary Baim
How to quit smoking after 60 years
Dmitry Karpeyev, PhD, survived a dangerous cancerous tumor behind his face; now he
First he survived cancer – now he studies it
Cancer clinical trials office recruits career opportunities for military-affiliated community. Left to right: Lauren Wall, Jacob Morris, Jessica Morris, Raven Edgeworth-Smith, Amanda Spratt, and Terrell Odom.
Cancer clinical trials office recruits career opportunities for military-affiliated community
Nicholas Vogelzang
Nicholas Vogelzang, MD, oncologist, 1949-2022
(Left to right) Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC); M. Eileen Dolan, PhD, deputy director of the UCCCC; and Shubitz Prize winner John Carpten, PhD, of the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
John Carpten named as the 2022 recipient of the Simon M. Shubitz Award and Lectureship
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Perfecting MRI as a breast cancer screening tool
A pharmacist selects a drug from a display case. A UChicago pharmacologist sees traction in push to lower cancer drug costs.
Policy and prescriptions: UChicago pharmacologist sees traction in push to lower cancer drug costs
Milbert Kennedy, male breast cancer survivor
Male breast cancer patient tackles the rare disease