Research and Science

Dr. Lindsey Draper tells how she became interested in cancer research and discusses what it’s like to work on immunotherapy clinical trials... Learn More

This video celebrates the accomplishments and contributions of The Cancer Genome Atlas, a landmark program in cancer genomics. As the TCGA program... Learn More

Dr. Ann O’Mara of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute talks about the types of research on cancer... Learn More

Audio Described version: https://youtu.be/zh4OQG1Wzmc Dr. Ann Geiger, Deputy Associate Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program within the Division of Cancer Control... Learn More

Genomics is the study of the complete set DNA in an organism (called the genome). Analyzing the genome of a patient’s cancer... Learn More

Clinical trial participants are a vital part of cancer research. For more about how your safety is protected on clinical trials, visit... Learn More

Dr. Ted Trimble, Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Global Health, shares why he has committed his career to cancer... Learn More

The NCI SBIR Development Center will be at AACR 2016 Annual Meeting! Come meet with us at Booth #1012, our Meet the... Learn More

The National Cancer Institute’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center provides special funding opportunities for small businesses through the Small Business... Learn More

Dr. Robert Hoover, director of NCI’s Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, discusses a new study of diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug once prescribed to... Learn More

NCI’s Acting Director, Dr. Douglas Lowy, M.D., discusses the advances we have made in cancer research and care, and the areas where... Learn More

NCI Director Harold Varmus, M.D., and RAS National Program Advisor Frank McCormick, Ph.D., explain the rationale for and the discussions that led... Learn More

Research advocates at NCI help advance the progress of cancer research and improve patient outcomes. Watch this introduction to the NCI Office... Learn More

Research advocates at NCI help find new and better ways to prevent, detect, and treat cancer. This video shows how research advocates... Learn More

Contact OAR if you are interested in becoming an NCI research advocate. This video provides contact information for OAR and information about... Learn More

Research advocates at NCI bring the patient experience and perspective to cancer research. This video describes the different ways patient advocates benefit... Learn More

Today, patients play important roles in cancer research at NCI. The history of patient advocacy has its roots in the social movements... Learn More

Research advocates are involved in research at NCI in four main ways: advise, design, review, or disseminate. This video describes how advocates... Learn More

Many of the breakthroughs in cancer care could not have been possible without the partnership of research advocates at NCI. Hear from... Learn More

Research advocates at NCI represent the cancer patient’s experience and perspective. Learn how advocates at NCI serve as the human faces of... Learn More

This video describes the purpose of the NCI OAR research advocacy program. You will learn the history of patient advocacy, why research... Learn More

An approximately 2:30 minute video loop to play throughout the National Science Festival to showcase who NCI is and what kind of... Learn More

NCI Director Harold Varmus, M.D., discusses the Provocative Questions Project and urges researchers to tackle the “perplexing” questions in cancer research. For... Learn More

Researchers at the Center for Cancer Research (CCR), part of the National Cancer Institute, integrate basic and clinical research discoveries into better... Learn More

Dr. Stephen Chanock, M.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Translational Genomics in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, discusses insights from... Learn More

Cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee presents an overview of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Emperor of All Maladies” to staff at... Learn More

Dr. Carole Parent, Senior Investigator of CCR’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology discusses the 2010 signing of the Graduate Partnership Program... Learn More

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) funds and conducts basic behavioral and social sciences research within the Division of Cancer Control and Population... Learn More

This video is one in a series of videos from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, explaining TCGA’s approach to determining the... Learn More

This video introduces the Neuro-Oncology Branch (NOB), a trans-institutional program of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Neurological Disorder... Learn More

Dr. Genoveffa Franchini, Senior Investigator in the Vaccine Branch at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR), discusses the... Learn More

Grid-Enabled Measures (GEM) is a dynamic web-based database built upon the caBIG® platform (for more information see https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/). GEM contains behavioral and... Learn More

Drs. Daniel Gallahan and Jerry Li of NCI’s Division of Cancer Biology talk about the emerging field of synthetic biology. They explain... Learn More

Dr. Raju Kucherlapati, the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, speaks about cancer genetics and genomics, specifically the... Learn More

Dr. Carol Fabian of the University of Kansas Medical Center discusses her role in developing the fine-needle aspiration technique and preventive breast... Learn More

Dr. Sholom Wacholder, a biostatistician in NCIs Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, discusses his role on a human papillomavirus vaccine clinical... Learn More

Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi discusses his involvement in identifying the primary gene that causes acute promyelocytic leukemia, and his continued work on... Learn More

Josh Sommer, co-founder and executive director of the Chordoma Foundation, talks about the challenges facing researchers who study rare cancers. Since being... Learn More

Hear what important cancer community stakeholders from the patient, oncology, research and drug development communities have to say about the critical importance... Learn More

Nanotechnology allows researchers to study cancer in its earliest stages of progression, enabling early detection and development of novel therapies to target... Learn More

In this demonstration of the CTC-Chip, circulating tumor cells (fluorescent labeled, shown in white) mixed with blood (not labeled) are captured on... Learn More

Dr. Jun Wei, Staff Scientist, Oncogenomics Section Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, describes his work using genetic research to... Learn More

Dr. Marcia Cruz-Correa, Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, explains the promise of epigenetics: To better understand... Learn More

In His Own Words – Dr. John A. Milner Dr. John A. Milner, chief of the Nutritional Science Research Group in the... Learn More

National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Frank Maldarelli talks about his Bench to Bedside funded award. For more information on the Bench to Bedside... Learn More

Read their story: http://irp.nih.gov/our-research/research-in-action/taking-the-long-view Mark Schiffman, M.D., M.P.H., and Julia Gage, Ph.D., M.P.H., use the tools of molecular epidemiology to predict and... Learn More

At a March 25 Town Hall meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Norman Coleman discussed issues... Learn More

In May 2012, NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) welcomed David Schottenfeld, M.D. as a Visiting Scholar. Dr. Schottenfeld is... Learn More

In March 2012 the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Global Health held its inaugural meeting. The meeting provided an opportunity to introduce... Learn More

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology hosted a symposium, New Frontiers in Physical Sciences and Oncology, to share research... Learn More

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology hosted a symposium, New Frontiers in Physical Sciences and Oncology, to share research... Learn More

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology hosted a symposium, New Frontiers in Physical Sciences and Oncology, to share research... Learn More

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death among Americans and takes a toll on communities across the United States. One of the... Learn More

For the first time, scientists have directly observed events that lead to formation of a chromosome abnormality that is often found in... Learn More

Dr. Douglas R. Lowy and Dr. John T. Schiller are receiving the 2013 Research & Hope Award for Academic or Public Research... Learn More

The Acting Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr. Doug Lowy, provides a preview of NCI’s annual plan and budget... Learn More

The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research is on the forefront of biomedical research to find new therapies for the treatment and... Learn More

Lynne Padgett, Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) describes the innovative research she is involved with in cancer research and... Learn More

Dr. Todd Horowitz, Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) describes the innovative research he conducts in cancer prevention and how... Learn More

NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) NCI established the Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) in 2015 for principal investigators who have achieved significant research... Learn More

Why is immunotherapy such a hot area of cancer research today? In this short excerpt from the documentary, “Cancer: The Emperor of... Learn More

The NCI’s Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) is an investigator-initiated infrastructure to support development and validation of early cancer detection biomarkers and... Learn More

The NCI Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) conducts and supports research to determine a person’s risk of developing cancer and to find... Learn More

Watch this whiteboard animation to learn about the three main phases of clinical trials. Clinical trials are research studies that involve people.... Learn More

Short video that discusses tissue donation as part of cancer research. Sue Scott, cancer survivor, and her physician-researcher, Christian Hinrichs, MD, of... Learn More

NCI coordinates the National Cancer Program and supports it by providing funding and resources to individual researchers and institutions, providing leadership to... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Matthew B. Yurgelun, MD Originally published Nov. 2, 2015 This podcast discusses the study by... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Elizabeth Maher, MD Originally published Nov. 2, 2015 The randomized placebo controlled trial of progesterone... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD Originally published Oct. 5, 2015 This podcast reviews the current knowledge of... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Dennis C. Shrieve, MD Originally published Jan. 12, 2016 Read the associated abstract by Fehlings,... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Charles M. Balch, MD Originally published Feb. 8, 2016 Read the associated abstract by McMasters,... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Brian I. Rini, MD Originally published Jan. 11, 2016 Discussion of a phase I trial... Learn More

Race for the Cure: How Differences in Race and Ethnicity Impact the Diagnosis and Survival of T-Cell Lymphoma A Journal of Clinical... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Matthew D. Galsky, MD Originally published Jan. 25, 2016 This podcast reviews the International Bladder... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Howard M. Katzenstein, MD Originally published Jan. 25, 2016 An update on clinical trials that... Learn More

Hard to RECIST: Updating and Simplifying Primary Tumor Response Guidelines for the Revised International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC) A Journal of Clinical... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Robert C. Doebele, MD Originally published Jan. 4, 2016 Read the associated abstract by Awad,... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Bradley L. Stein, MD Originally published Dec. 30, 2015 This podcast provides commentary on the... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Jonathan R. Strosberg, MD Originally published Dec. 28, 2015 This podcast describes the evolving role... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Eric Chow, MD Originally published Dec. 23, 2015 This podcast summarizes the paper by Asselin... Learn More

A Journal of Clinical Oncology podcast by Joyce Liu, MD Originally published Nov. 9, 2015 Recent findings represent an important and exciting... Learn More