CANCER CENTER SUPPORT GRANT

This application requests a 5 year renewal of the Cancer Center Support
Grant (CCSG) for the Arizona Cancer Center (ACC). The ACC was founded in
1976, has had a CCSG since 1978, and was designated as a Comprehensive
Cancer Center by the NCI in 1990. The ACC functions as a matrix center and
is a division of the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine (COM).
The goal of the cancer center is to make major contributions to research
related to the basic understanding, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and
control of cancer as part of the NCI's network of Cancer Centers. The major
established and proposed new programs of the ACC include Molecular
Carcinogenesis, Cancer Treatment, Cancer Prevention and Control, Nursing
Oncology, Cancer Diagnosis, Cancer Biology, and Immunobiology. In order to
support and enhance the research programs, a series of 15 core support
services have either already been established previously or proposed for
implementation in this CCSG application. The shared resources requested
include Analytical Chemistry, Biometry, Cytogenetics, Dishwashing,
Experimental Radiation, Prevention and Control, Research Pharmacy, Tissue
Culture, Flow Cytometry, Clinical Research, Molecular and Computational
Biology, SCID Mouse Service, Transgenic Mouse Service and Pathology
Research Services.