Moores Cancer Center

The Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is the region's only NCI-designated Cancer Center in La Jolla, California, part of UC San Diego Health and affiliated with the University of California San Diego. It is supported, in part, by the National Cancer Institute.

Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego Health
Geography
LocationLa Jolla, San Diego, California
Organisation
Hospital typeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity of California San Diego
Services
Emergency departmentSulpizio Cardiovascular Center
SpecialtyCancer
History
Founded1978
Links
Websitehttps://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/cancer/Pages/default.aspx

History

The center was established in 1978 and received its NCI designation the same year. It earned comprehensive status in 2001.[1] There are approximately 360 faculty members affiliated with the center.

A five-story building, home to the center, was opened in La Jolla in 2005.[2]

The Moores Cancer Center provides outpatient treatment on site. Inpatient hospital treatment is provided at the adjacent Jacobs Medical Center in the Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care, which opened in 2016 and has three floors dedicated to oncology, [3], and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, which has recently expanded its cancer services.

Scott Lippman has been the director since 2012. He previously worked at MD Anderson.[4]

Six major research programs at Moores Cancer Center include: Cancer Biology; Cancer Genes and Genome; Cancer Prevention and Control; Hematologic Malignancies; Reducing Cancer Disparities; and Tumor Growth, Invasion, and Metastasis.[1][5]

Notable faculty
  • Roger Tsien
  • Thomas Kipps, discoverer of ROR1, and contributed to the development of cirmtuzumab
  • Ezra Cohen
  • Don W. Cleveland
  • Marilyn Farquhar
  • Napoleone Ferrara

References
  1. "UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center". National Cancer Institute. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. "About the Cancer Center - Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health". UC Health - UC San Diego. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. CONNOR, KATHERINE (7 April 2015). "UCSD Moores Cancer Center expanding with 4 development projects". sddt.com. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  4. "UCSD cancer center names new director". modernhealthcare.com. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy

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