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Comprehensive Cancer
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Director: Ronald B. Herberman, M.D. |
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UPMC Cancer Pavilion
5150
Centre Avenue,
Suite 500
Pittsburgh, PA 15232 |
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Tel: (412) 623-3205 |
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Fax: (412) 623-3210 |
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The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) is
an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. The 339 UPCI members are
faculty of the University of Pittsburgh with a minority of UPCI members
from the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. The cancer research enterprise
is organized into several major areas including; basic research programs,
translational research programs, disease-site specific programs, and
cancer control and population sciences. There are 11 CCSG-supported programs,
4 developing programs, and 20 CCSG-supported shared facilities that provide
services to UPCI members. In 2004 UPCI was ranked 12th among all Cancer
Centers in NCI funding. In FY 2005, UPCI researchers received more than
$159 million in research support.
UPCI is the cancer research center for the University of
Pittsburgh and for the closely linked University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC), which includes 19 hospitals and more than 40 UPMC Cancer
Center facilities in the tri-state area, extending throughout western
Pennsylvania and into adjacent parts of Ohio and West Virginia. UPCI
is responsible for the management and coordination of cancer research
and care at each of these UPMC institutions. The Hillman Cancer Center
which opened in 2002, consolidated and expanded research and clinical
operations and provides a cancer-dedicated central base for UPCI, with
178,000 square feet of research facilities, 185,000 square feet of outpatient
facilities, 100,000 square feet of office space, and more than 50 beds
in the directly adjacent hospital, UPMC Shadyside. The result has been
an expansion of UPCI facilities by over 100 percent and, equally important,
the improved integration of clinical, laboratory, and population sciences
research that accompanied the assignment of a major portion of their
activities at one central location.
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