Cancer Research at Yale

Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Cancer Center have long been at the forefront of understanding the fundamental mechanisms of cancer biology and in developing effective therapies for the treatment of cancer. Since the beginning of medicine in New Haven, the relationships between the medical school and the hospital have been their strengths, particularly bringing the latest research and treatments out of the YCC labs and to cancer patients through clinical research trials.

YCC research is focused through six programs that include faculty members and a group of investigators from different disciplines and academic departments who share common scientific interests and goals and participate in competitively funded research. The programs are designed to encourage information exchange, the development of experimental techniques, and new ideas that enhance the individual productivity of scientists and result in multi-investigator collaborations and joint publications. Each program is led by recognized national leaders in their fields of cancer research.

The work is supported by resources shared across the scientific community and furthered by translational research that bridges much of the work from basic science to applications of the science, as well as the work of labs, the centers for Immuno-oncology as well as Molecular and Cellular Oncology, the COPPER center, and the Cancer Biology Institute.