Moores Cancer Center

Moores Cancer Center is one of five Organized Research Units (ORU) of the UC San Diego School of Medicine. As an ORU, the Cancer Center stimulates collaborations in cancer research and nurtures junior cancer investigators.

There are over 330 faculty members of the Center, who are drawn from 19 departments and divisions across the campus and other local institutions such as Rady Children’s Hospital, The Salk Institute, and San Diego State University.

Cancer Center membership includes one Nobel Laureate, 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences (UCSD is ranked 7th in the total number of NAS members, with 67 members), one member of the Advisory Council of the NCI, and a past president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Research collaborations

Interactions occur between the Center and adjacent institutions: The Salk Institute, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Scripps Research Institute and its related clinics and hospitals, and The Burnham Institute for Cancer Research.

• One of two US branches of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research is located on the UC San Diego campus, which enables powerful scientific synergies with members of the Cancer Center.
• The Cancer Center is working in close collaboration with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, seeking to develop new chemotherapeutic agents from algae and other natural living organisms from the sea.
• Center researchers have established an active research program with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, one of two such centers in the nation, which is housed on the UC San Diego campus.
• At any given time, the Cancer Center offers over 150 clinical trials.

Cancer research programs

• Cancer Biology
• Cancer Genes and Genome
• Cancer Prevention and Control
• Hematologic Malignancies
• Reducing Cancer Disparities
• Tumor Growth, Invasion and Metastasis
• SDSU/UCSD Cancer Partnership Planning

Shared resource facilities

• Biorepository
• Biostatistics/Bioinformatics
• Cancer and Minorities Research (at San Diego State University)
• Clinical Trials Office
• DNA Sequencing
• Flow Cytometry
• Histology & Immunohistochemistry
• iCys Research Imaging Cytometer
• In Vivo Imaging
• Laser Capture Microdissection
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Microarray
• Microscopy
• Nutrition
• Radiation Medicine
• Transgenic Core