[medinformatics] NCI Launches New Integrative Cancer Research Program

[Healthcare Informatics News]

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced $14.9 million in funding for a new
Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP). From the NIH press release:

The ICBP is a unique initiative designed to gain new insights into the development and progression of cancer
through a systems-wide approach. An integrative and multi-disciplinary effort among all fields of cancer research
will be applied, incorporating a spectrum of new technologies such as genomics, proteomics, and molecular imaging, to
generate computer and mathematical models that could predict the cancer process.

The ICBP initiative highlights nine integrative biology centers. These centers will provide the nucleus for the
design and validation of computational and mathematical cancer models. The models will simulate complex cancer
processes, and will be used to address all stages of cancer, from the basic cellular processes through tumor growth
and metastasis. “The key aspect that sets the ICBP effort apart from others,” said Daniel Gallahan, Ph.D., Associate
Director, Division of Cancer Biology, NCI, “is the focus on building predictive cancer models, and not just analyzing
data.”

NCI’s Cancer Biomedical Information Grid (caBIG) program will coordinate
all the bioinformatics software needed by the ICBP as part of caBIG’s ongoing effort to simplify and integrate the
sharing and usage of data by providing access to NCI’s cancer research communities.


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