Research, Discovery & Innovation

Cancer Research Center

Cancer encompasses a diverse group of neoplasms with distinct epidemiologic, genetic, pathologic, and clinical features. Translating new insights arising from cancer research into improved prevention, diagnosis, and treatment requires multi-disciplinary, interactive groups of investigators and clinicians working in an environment that permits them to bring their unique talents to bear effectively and synergistically on different aspects of these diseases.

The BRI Cancer Research Center’s mission is to promote excellence in fundamental and translational cancer research at BWH; to foster the interdisciplinary interactions that are necessary to solve central questions pertaining to cancer pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; to determine the impact of cancer and its treatment on patient quality-of-life; and to communicate these advances and insights to the larger outside community of scientists, physicians, policy makers, and the general public. In doing so, the Center helps maintain BWH’s strong leadership position in Cancer Research. During fiscal year 2023, more than 400 BWH PIs conducted cancer-related research in excess of $127 million total costs, including funding from the National Cancer Institute and several foundations for cancer-related research.

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Throughout the long history of cancer research at BWH, our investigators have influenced the understanding and treatment of cancers such as a novel surgical technique (extrapleural pneumonectomy) to treat mesothelioma and identification of risk factors for breast cancer through the Nurses’ Health Study among others.

BWH investigators are nationally and internationally recognized got their contributions to advances in cancer research and are recipients of prestigious awards including being one of the only five National Cancer Institute (NCI) Ovarian Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in the United States.

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Center Working Group
Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP, MPH

Clinical Research Senior Faculty Representative, ROC
Carol C. Nadelson, MD Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry |
Director, Well-Being and Cancer Research Program
Ross Berbeco, PhD

Interim Chief, Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Department of Radiation Oncology
Jennifer Guerriero, PhD

Assistant Professor, Surgery, Breast Surgery |
Breast Oncology Program, DFCI |
Harvard Immunology Program, HMS
Manraj Kaur, PhD

Investigator, Lead Faculty for Research and Innovation, PROVE Center, Surgery
Yan Tang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Get Involved

The BRI Cancer Research Center is looking for cancer researchers with a Brigham affiliation to serve on the Center’s working group. If you would like to help shape the goals and activities of the Center, please click here to indicate your interest.

To learn more about the hospital’s efforts in cancer research, visit the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center web page. For more information about the Cancer Research Center, email bwhbri@partners.org.

BWH Cancer Researchers

The following list includes hundreds of Brigham investigators, grouped by department, whose work touches on cancer in some way. You can scroll horizontally in the database to see details about their work.

If you are a Brigham researcher whose work relates to cancer but you don’t see yourself on this list, please click here to submit your information!

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Cancer-Related Funding Opportunities

The following open funding opportunities are filtered by keywords related to cancer in the title, sponsor, or summary. These are a subset of the funding opportunities you can find on our main funding page here.

You can scroll horizontally for more details on each opportunity, and sort or filter by additional fields like Eligibility using the menu bar at the top of the grid.

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