Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCCC) is an
NCI-designated Cancer Center NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of 71 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Program
Three designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Clinical Cancer Centers, and Ba ...
in Cleveland, Ohio affiliated with
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Res ...
. It was founded in 1987.
CCCC employs over 370 faculty members.
It is a collaborative organization with the
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit American academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation established in 1921, it runs a 170-acre (69 ha) campus in Cleveland, ...
Taussig Cancer Institute and
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center.
[
Case is organized into six research programs receiving ]NIH
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1 ...
funding. In total, the center has received over $130 million in research funding.
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NCI-designated cancer centers
Healthcare in Cleveland
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