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NCI Launches New Integrative Cancer Biology Program

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).

The ICBP is a unique initiative designed to gain new insights into the development and progression of cancer through a system-wide approach.An integrative and multidisciplinary 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 ICBP centers also will serve as training and outreach programs, enabling developing technologies to be
communicated to other scientists in the cancer research community.The ICBP centers also will interact and collaborate with other NCI programs and external groups. NCI's cancer Biomedical Information Grid (caBIG) program will coordinate all the bioinformatics software needed by the ICBP as part of caBlG'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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