Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancers for Years 2024, 2025, and 2026
Funds translational cancer centres built around one organ system, or one biological mechanism that drives cancer across several. A clinical trial is required.
A SPORE is the National Cancer Institute's translational cancer research centre, and the defining feature is focus. Each one is built around a specific organ-site cancer, or a group of closely related cancers, and has to move research toward better prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of them — not toward answering a single investigator's question in isolation.
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Investigator-initiated translational research organised as a centre around one organ-site cancer or a group of highly related cancers — related by organ system, by a shared infectious cause, or by dysregulation of a common signalling pathway — aimed at improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment.
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