Cancer Alliance http://www.cancer-alliance.org Working Together to Elimate Cancer Health Disparities Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:45:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 12th Annual Cancer Retreat http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2012/12/12th-annual-cancer-retreat/ http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2012/12/12th-annual-cancer-retreat/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:24:35 +0000 admin http://www.cancer-alliance.org/?p=145 Read more …]]> 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 Building, Room 1206
  • Register Online

 

Dr. Philip Browning Memorial Lecture

  • “Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in regulation of immune responses in cancer”
  • Presented By:
    Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D
    Professor, Department of Oncologic Sciences
    Member-in-Residence of the Moffitt Cancer Center
    Tampa, Fl

Admission is free and open to anyone interested in finding out the latest in cancer research locally and nationally.

A poster session will be open for all cancer-related projects from investigators and students.

Poster prizes will be awarded.

For additional information, contact us.

]]> http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2012/12/12th-annual-cancer-retreat/feed/ 0 Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities 2011 http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2011/09/center-to-reduce-cancer-health-disparities-2011/ http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2011/09/center-to-reduce-cancer-health-disparities-2011/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:04:33 +0000 admin http://www.cancer-alliance.org/?p=31 Read more …]]> 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. The purpose for CHDC meetings is to provide a venue to exchange ideas and build collaborations that could advance cancer health disparities research and promote the training of diverse investigators. This four day meeting will include plenary sessions, programmatic meetings, a mock review session, skill-building workshops, networking opportunities, small group discussions, and poster competitions.

The Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities is central to NCI’s efforts to reduce the unequal burden of cancer in our society and to train the next generation of competitive researchers in cancer and cancer health disparities research.

For more information and to register for the conference, visit http://www.cancermeetings.org/CHDProgramMeetings2011/

 

]]> http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2011/09/center-to-reduce-cancer-health-disparities-2011/feed/ 0 Mission and History of the Cancer Partnership Award http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2011/09/mission-and-history-of-the-cancer-partnership-award/ http://www.cancer-alliance.org/2011/09/mission-and-history-of-the-cancer-partnership-award/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:45:48 +0000 admin http://www.cancer-alliance.org/?p=27 Read more …]]> 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.

This grant represents one of the very few U54s with a balanced focus on population science, basic, and clinical research.

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