THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center was recognized by NCI as a designated cancer center, and had their support grant increased by 20 percent, following an in-depth peer review.
NCI rated the cancer center’s research activities as “excellent,” and awarded it a five-year, $7.8 million support grant. The NCI designation places the IU Simon Cancer Center in a group of 68 cancer centers. It is the only NCI-designated cancer center in Indiana that provides patient care. The center first received the NCI designation in 1999, seven years after its founding.
“We are especially honored to be renewed with this very prized designation again,” said Patrick Loehrer, director of the IU Simon Cancer Center. “To receive a funding increase in the current funding climate is icing on the cake.”
Reviewers, composed of NCI officials and others from NCI-designated cancer centers, evaluated the cancer center’s five research programs and visited in February 2014. Members of those research programs are on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IU Bloomington, IU South Bend and Notre Dame campuses.
