12th Annual Cancer Retreat
Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center/Tennessee State University Cancer Partnership present 12th Annual Cancer Retreat The Interface Between Cancer and the Immune System Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Meharry Medical College Harold D. West Basic Sciences Read more …
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities 2011
On Tuesday, July 12th through Friday July 15th representatives of the Meharry-Vanderbilt-TSU partnership will attend the Cancer Health Disparities 2011 Program Meetings in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting location will be held at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Read more …
Mission and History of the Cancer Partnership Award
In 1999 the then Office of Minority Health Disparities headed by Dr. John Ruffin along with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) initiated several new research initiatives to support funding for the establishment of cancer research partnerships between existing NCI Comprehensive and/or NCI designated Cancer Centers and Minority Serving Institutions. These initiatives arose from the disturbing observations that although minorities including African-Americans suffer a disproportionate burden of cancer deaths in this country, neither the cancer centers alone nor minority serving institutions have been effective in addressing this problem. The initial objective of the NCI program was to strengthen the capabilities of minority serving institutions to engage in effective and productive cancer research collaborations with their neighboring cancer centers, with the ultimate goal of reducing the high cancer incidence and death rates among minorities. The MMC-VICC partnership was initiated by a supplement to the VICC (Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center) Support Grant (CCSG) in 1999. In 2000, Drs. Adunyah and Moses successfully competed for one of two U54 NCI Comprehensive Partnership Grants that were funded in the country. In 2006 the two PIs again successfully competed for another 5 years of funding from August 2006 to July 2011. Meharry Medical College’s component of the recently renewed NCI U54 Cancer Partnership grant is approximately $10 million in total costs over five years. To effectively engage in community outreach program for cancer prevention, the institutions also partnered with Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. Read more …
