Center of Excellence Awards
A pioneering, multi-institutional approach to eradicating breast cancer
The Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Award mechanism was established to encourage the formation of multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research programs that bring exceptional scientists, clinicians, and consumer advocates together to investigate an overarching research problem in breast cancer. Since 2001 the BCRP has funded 16 Centers totaling $136.9 Million.
2001 Breast Cancer Center of Excellence (COE) Awards
Dr. Myles A. Brown
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Prevention and Treatment of ER-Negative Breast Cancer
COE Website: http://research.dfci.harvard.edu/coe/
Dr. Lynn C. Hartman
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Benign Breast Disease: Toward Molecular Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk
Dr. Gabriel N. Hortobagyi
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Development of Targeted Therapy Strategies for Breast Cancer
Dr. Bonnie F. Sloane
Wayne State University
Validation of Proteases as Therapeutic Targets in Breast Cancer: Functional Imaging of Protease Expression, Activity, and Inhibition
Dr. Nicole D. Urban
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Center for the Evaluation of Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer
2002 Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Awards
Dr. Ercole L. Cavalieri
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Estrogen-Induced Depuriniation of DNA: A Novel Target for Breast Cancer Prevention
Dr. Laura J. Esserman
University of California, San Francisco
Blueprint for Regional Excellence in Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Peter Shields
Georgetown University
Molecular Epidemiology and Mechanisms for Breast Carcinogenesis: Alcohol Drinking as a Paradigm
COE Website: http://lombardi.georgetown.edu/research/initiatives/coe/
2003 Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Awards
Dr. Silvia C. Formenti
New York University School of Medicine
Response, Resistance, and Metastasis of Locally Advanced Breast Cancer in a Multiethnic Cohort
Dr. Michael Press
University of Southern California
A Genetic, Molecular, and Structural Analysis of Hormonal Carcinogenesis
Dr. George W. Sledge
Indiana University
Center of Excellence for Individualization of Therapy for Breast Cancer
COE Website: https://www.hoosieroncologygroup.org/center-for-excellence.aspx
Dr. Saraswati Sukumar
Johns Hopkins University
Center of Excellence in Molecular Targeting of Breast Cancer Metastasis
2004 Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Awards
Dr. Lewis A. Chodosh
University of Pennsylvania
Biological and Functional Imaging Approaches to Understanding Breast Cancer Metastasis, Progression, and Response to Therapy
Dr. Alfred I. Neugut
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Racial Disparities in the Initiation and Intensity of Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer
2005 Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Awards
Dr. Virgil Jordan
Institute for Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center
A New Therapeutic Paradigm for Breast Cancer Exploiting Low Dose Estrogen-induced Apoptosis
Dr. Patricia Steeg
T.R.U.E. Foundation
Studies Directed Toward the Eradication of Brain Metastases of Breast Cancer
COE Website: http://www.brainmetsbc.org/