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the Ginny L Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute Symposium
April 8, Health Sciences Innovation Building
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, to lead U of A Cancer Center
The University of Arizona Health Sciences has appointed Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, as the director of the U of A Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Theodorescu will begin his duties as the Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge Endowed Chair for the Director of the Cancer Center on March 1.
Theodorescu will oversee the scientific and administrative operations of the Cancer Center, which includes the Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute and the Skin Cancer Institute. The latter is the model for comprehensive skin cancer outreach, education, research and clinical care in Arizona.
The only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center headquartered in the state of Arizona.
The only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center headquartered in the state of Arizona.
Research
Hundreds of doctors, scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students and technicians work in more than 70 research laboratories in the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Armed with test tubes, cancer cells, computers and tumor models, they search for the missing pieces of the cancer puzzle in their efforts to prevent and cure cancer.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center has three established scientific Research Programs that work together to accomplish the Center’s mission to prevent and cure cancer.
Our researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer Center collaborate concerning a breadth of issues, from benchtop to bedside, involving translational and clinical research with a major emphasis on discovery.
The clinician scientists of the University of Arizona Cancer Center are engaged in more than 200 clinical trials, investigating a broad spectrum of new diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies.
Bringing promising new therapies from the laboratory to the bedside is a high priority. The clinician scientists of the University of Arizona Cancer Center are engaged in more than 200 clinical trials, investigating a broad spectrum of new diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies.
