James Graham Brown Cancer Center

The mission of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville is to generate new knowledge relating to the nature and causation of cancer and to create new and more effective approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis and therapy. We will do this while delivering medical advances with compassion and respect to cancer patients throughout our region.

To accomplish this mission we have established strong programs in translational cancer research, focused on new therapies and diagnostics; state-of-the-art multidisciplinary care for cancer patients; and outreach programs to reduce the disproportionate burden of cancer in Kentucky.

Over the next 10 years, we will continue to focus on developing high quality clinical and research programs leading to the Brown Cancer Center’s recognition as a nationally recognized preeminent institution. To reach that goal we will need to continue to grow critical mass in our faculty, expand the center’s multidisciplinary clinical care program, improve research infrastructure, and attain NCI designation.

Brown Cancer Center Priorities Total:

$125 million

Our Needs

download PDF bookletThe goals of the Brown Cancer Center and its enormous growth in recent years can only be sustained by continued philanthropic support in the following areas:

Funding for research faculty recruitment

  • 40 additional research faculty, at $1.5 million each, over the next 10 years within the established cancer programs and an expansion of the drug development program

Amount needed: $60 million

Funding for clinical faculty recruitment

  • 20 additional clinical faculty members, at $1.5 million each, focused on a multidisciplinary approach to patient care across a broad spectrum of oncology service line and patient support programs

Amount needed: $30 million

Funding for research chairs

  • 10 additional research chairs for basic research and translational research, at $2 million each (including matching funds from the Research Challenge Trust Fund) program

Amount needed: $20 million

Funding for research infrastructure

  • Modernizing the structural biology cores, establishing a cell characterization core and creating an animal pathology core facility

Amount needed: $10 million

Funding for a new endowment to support the ongoing needs of research infrastructure, including capital equipment, maintenance/repair costs for research equipment and updated IT support needs

Amount needed: $5 million

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