In the News

Read the latest news on OCG to stay up-to-date on new research findings and important announcements.

TARGET
March 07, 2018

Dr. Francis Collins highlights the first trans-TARGET data publication in his Director’s blog Working Towards Greater Precision in Childhood Cancers. This study, published in Nature, analyzed DNA...

HCMI
July 11, 2016

The NCI Office of Cancer Genomics, along with Cancer Research UK, foundation Hubrecht Organoid Technology, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, launched the Human Cancer Models Initiative (HCMI)....

All Programs
June 06, 2016

The NCI’s Center for Cancer Genomics launches the Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a unified data sharing platform for the cancer research community. The mission of the GDC is to enable data sharing...

All Programs
May 10, 2016

As part of the Vice President’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, the National Cancer Institute has launched an online engagement platform to enable the research community and the public to...

All Programs
March 04, 2016

The ORFeome Collaboration (OC) is a team of academic and commercial entities which have generated the largest collection of clones containing verified open-reading frames (ORFs) of known human...

TARGET
June 22, 2015

It is with great sadness and a profound sense of loss that OCG recognizes the untimely passing of Dr. Robert J. Arceci. Dr. Arceci was a co-Principal Investigator for the Acute Myeloid Leukemia (...

CTD²
April 16, 2015

The CTD2 Dashboard hosts analyzed data and other evidence generated by the CTD2 Network. It is a web interface for the research community to browse and search CTD2 Network data related to genes,...

All Programs
April 15, 2015

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has launched the Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG) website within www.cancer.gov to provide an overview of CCG programs, collaborative efforts, events, and more...

TARGET
February 08, 2015

TARGET researchers molecularly characterized favorable histology Wilms tumor (FHWT), a pediatric renal cancer. Comprehensive genome and transcript analyses revealed single-nucleotide substitution/...

CTD²
February 05, 2015

In a recent Cancer Discovery report, CTD2 researchers at the University of California in San Francisco developed a new quantitative chemical-genetic interaction mapping approach to evaluate drug...

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