The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center earned an additional $12 million from NCI as a two-year merit-based extension. The center was the first of two NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers to be awarded this distinction, followed by Lurie Cancer Center.
The center’s Cancer Center Support Grant was last renewed in 2017, when it received an “exceptional” rating along with $27.9 million to support research from 2018-2023.
Since its founding in 1987 by Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals, the center has held an NCI designation; it attained “comprehensive” status in 1998. Cleveland Clinic formally joined the consortium in 2003.
