The Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer
Penn's Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer
The University of Pennsylvania Health System and School of Medicine, the Abramson Cancer Center, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology have developed the new Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer. Directed by George Coukos MD, PhD, the Center’s goal is to identify new detection methods, develop new prevention approaches and therapies and improve the quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.
The Center provides an infrastructure for ovarian cancer research and treatment and serves as a catalyst to unite existing talent at Penn, recruit new investigators and promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the field of ovarian cancer research.
This new Center has three major research programs:
The ovarian cancer early detection and prevention program develops new detection tools such as biomarkers and imaging technologies, as well as new prevention methods. The advanced therapeutics program develops new treatment approaches that will hopefully increase women’s chances for cure. Each program conducts translational research, therefore offering clinical trials testing the effectiveness of the detection, prevention and therapeutic methods discovered.
The ovarian cancer biology and pathogenesis program has a more fundamental discovery focus, with the aim to understand the pathogenesis and biology of ovarian cancer and feed the other two programs with ideas and information from which detection, prevention and therapeutic concepts can be developed.
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