Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has earned the comprehensive cancer center designation from the National Cancer Institute, placing it in the top one percent of all cancer centers in the United States. Effective immediately, Winship becomes the newest NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in the nation.
This designation means that Winship has demonstrated that its outstanding programs are reducing the cancer burden on the state of Georgia through research conducted in its laboratories, its clinical trial program and its population-based science. Winship members have received $110 million in external peer-reviewed funding in 440 grants in support of this innovative research.
An estimated 50,000 Georgians will be diagnosed with cancer this year. About a third of them will receive some component of their treatment at one of Winship’s clinical locations in metropolitan Atlanta. Winship has over 250 clinical trials enrolling patients in pursuit of better approaches to nearly every type of cancer.
Winship earned its first NCI cancer center designation in 2009, and the grant was renewed in 2012. Established 80 years ago by a foundational gift from Robert W. Woodruff, Winship Cancer Institute continues to receive funding support from the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc.
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