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UC College of Medicine
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is part of a leading academic health center that holds more than $278.5 million in research funding and ranks 19th for NIH research funding among public medical schools.
The UC College of Medicine prepares individuals to practice medicine through a rigorous curriculum, diverse learning opportunities, and exceptional clinical experiences. The College of Medicine strategic plan focuses on developing clinical care, research, and education in four key areas, one of which is cancer.
The interdisciplinary cancer initiative at the UC College of Medicine—which includes laboratory research (in cells and human tissue), translational research (in pre-clinical models), and clinical (human) research— is committed to excellence in both discovery and patient care. As with their partners at Cincinnati Children’s, UC’s translational science teams focus on understanding and decoding the underlying mechanisms of cancer to better understand why people get cancer, how to prevent it, and how to better treat it. Areas of particular strength include a cell and cancer biology team investigating the biological basis of lung cancer and an environmental health team focused on how human genes interact with the substances people put in their bodies and how living environments influence cancer risk.
UC medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists treat patients at the UC Barrett Cancer Institute at University Hospital and Precision Radiotherapy Center. Multidisciplinary clinical teams are devoted to developing diagnostic tools and cancer treatments. Precision Radiotherapy’s Brainlab system, for example, has advanced capabilities for imaging tumors in real time to minimize radiation effects. The Drug Discovery Unit, housed at UC’s Reading campus, facilitates robotic screening of drug targets against a compound library. The UC clinical trials office actively operates trials for promising new therapies.
Of course, one of UC’s most important contributions to the study and treatment of cancer is its commitment to educating brilliant doctors as well as technicians, scientists, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals who are essential to quality cancer care on a global scale.
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www.med.uc.edu