Mission Statement

The mission of the CRCC is the support of promising new directions of research into all aspects of the cancer problem, including its origin, prevention and cure. The CRCC provides one-year seed grants to faculty on the ten campuses, with the expectation that the most promising research will thereafter be funded by larger, long-term grants from other agencies. At the present time, the CRCC awards grants to new faculty to initiate cancer research projects, to established investigators in areas of research other than cancer to initiate cancer research projects, and to established investigators to initiate studies in new areas.