Abstract

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an independent federally designated Comprehensive Cancer Center affiliated with the Harvard Medical School.
The aims of the Institute can be summarized as follows: a) to develop and maintain clinical and laboratory research programs of high quality related to biology, cause and prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer; b) to provide total care for cancer patients on an interdisciplinary basis and in association with neighboring institutions; c) to serve as the major cancer center in the Harvard Medical School area and to play a leadership role for cancer research and patient care in New England providing expertise in cancer diagnosis and treatment; d) to add to the total oncology resources of the medical community in terms of available staff, facilities and expertise; e) to participate in the teaching and training of medical students, house staff, fellows and graduate students and in the continuing education of practicing physicians and other health professionals.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
5P30CA006516-27
Application #
3101212
Study Section
Cancer Center Support Review Committee (CCS)
Project Start
1977-12-01
Project End
1991-01-31
Budget Start
1990-02-01
Budget End
1991-01-31
Support Year
27
Fiscal Year
1990
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
149617367
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215

  Publications

Mills, Evanna L; Pierce, Kerry A; Jedrychowski, Mark P et al. (2018) Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature 560:102-106
Oser, Matthew G; Fonseca, Raquel; Chakraborty, Abhishek A et al. (2018) Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. Cancer Discov :
Choudhury, Atish D; Gray, Kathryn P; Supko, Jeffrey G et al. (2018) A dose finding clinical trial of cabozantinib (XL184) administered in combination with abiraterone acetate in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate :
Watson, Noreen L; Mull, Kristin E; Heffner, Jaimee L et al. (2018) Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions. J Med Internet Res 20:e10351
Pednekar, M S; Nagler, E M; Gupta, P C et al. (2018) Scaling up a tobacco control intervention in low resource settings: a case example for school teachers in India. Health Educ Res 33:218-231
Braun, Danielle; Yang, Jiabei; Griffin, Molly et al. (2018) A Clinical Decision Support Tool to Predict Cancer Risk for Commonly Tested Cancer-Related Germline Mutations. J Genet Couns 27:1187-1199
Santana-Codina, Naiara; Roeth, Anjali A; Zhang, Yi et al. (2018) Oncogenic KRAS supports pancreatic cancer through regulation of nucleotide synthesis. Nat Commun 9:4945
Cox, Andrew G; Tsomides, Allison; Yimlamai, Dean et al. (2018) Yap regulates glucose utilization and sustains nucleotide synthesis to enable organ growth. EMBO J 37:
Oxnard, Geoffrey R; Hu, Yuebi; Mileham, Kathryn F et al. (2018) Assessment of Resistance Mechanisms and Clinical Implications in Patients With EGFR T790M-Positive Lung Cancer and Acquired Resistance to Osimertinib. JAMA Oncol 4:1527-1534
Patil, Prasad; Parmigiani, Giovanni (2018) Training replicable predictors in multiple studies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:2578-2583

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