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NCI-designated Cancer Center
Cancer research at Burnham aims to pre-empt cancer before it develops, detect cancer at its earliest point and eliminate cancer’s deadly spread, confining the disease as a condition treatable with surgery. Other major efforts at the Cancer Center include developing targeting technologies that deliver anti-cancer drugs specifically to the tumor -- thereby avoiding side-effects -- and technologies for tricking cancer cells into committing suicide through restoration of a natural mechanism for cell death.
The Cancer Center is an interdisciplinary effort mobilizing over 400 individuals working in a highly collaborative and interactive program structure, each of which addresses a particular aspect of cancer.
Cancer research is funded by individual grants to Burnham scientists, and since 1981, support in the form of a cancer center grant from the National Cancer Institute as an NCI-sponsored Basic Cancer Center. The "basic cancer center" designation indicates that Burnham's Cancer Center is focused entirely on cancer-related research rather than a combination of research and clinical management of cancer patients.
Read on to learn more about the Cancer Center, our scientific programs, the shared resources that support the Center, and our capabilities in chemical biology and drug discovery.
