The USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California
was founded in 1971 and has been continuously supported by a Cancer Center Core Support
Grant since 1973. It has developed into a major regional and national resource for
cancer research, treatment, prevention and education. Center facilities have been
built and developed with support from the NCI, the University and the
Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital, which is an integral part of the Cancer Center.
The Center underwent a major expansion with the addition of the Norman Topping Tower
in 1996 and the Harlyne Norris Research Tower in 2007.
The Center’s members are organized into five thematic and five translational
research programs, including a “bridge” program in developmental therapeutics.
The thematic programs are headed by senior investigators in the fields of molecular
genetics, epigenetics and regulation, tumor microenvironment, cancer epidemiology and
cancer control research. The translational programs, which provide focus to our
multidisciplinary research efforts, are in developmental therapeutics, genitourinary
cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, women’s cancers and leukemia and lymphoma.
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