Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers
Funds the shared infrastructure behind an NCI-designated Comprehensive, Clinical or Basic Cancer Center, not individual research projects.
A cancer centre's investigators can run dozens of separate projects, and none of them can justify building their own version of the same shared equipment, biobank or statistics core alone.
This is the funding for that shared layer, not for the individual projects themselves. It backs three kinds of NCI-designated centre: Comprehensive Cancer Centers, with real depth and breadth across basic labor…
Core infrastructure and shared-resource support for NCI-designated Comprehensive, Clinical or Basic Cancer Centers, integrating an institution's cancer research across basic laboratory, clinical, and prevention, control and population-based work, gated on an existing funding base of $10,000,000 or $6,000,000 a year in cancer-focused NIH support depending on centre type. Clinical trials are optional.
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