COMMUNITY
Forum Log - inStem cells, microenvironment and cancer
The Stem Cell Program of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), Buffalo, New York, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut and Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative and Stem Cell Research at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California intend to develop a consortium entitled "Stem cells, microenvironment and cancer."
This proposal is built on a unique synergistic combination of major strengths of Cornell University, such as strong comparative medicine and unparalleled interface of biomedical sciences with other disciplines, with outstanding capabilities of other participating institutions, such as an access to clinical materials and trials, expertise of work with reprogrammed pluripotent cells and high throughput screening and validation technologies. A number of intra- and interinstitutional
collaborations among investigators of participating institutions have already been formed and
their further development will tremendously benefit from strengthening of inter-institutional links. The formation of the consortium is also essential because new exciting opportunities for further collaborations among investigators of participating institutions have been identified. Furthermore, there are numerous needs in exchange of services of institutional cores, development of new centralized cores and cross-institutional training in stem cell related technologies.