The Greehey CCRI is a unique and specialized cancer research center. The mission of Greehey CCRI is to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer and to accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through discovery, development, and dissemination of scientific knowledge with relevancy to childhood cancer, the overarching aim of the Greehey CCRI is to impact the problem of cancer at all ages.
Established by the largest single oncology endowment in the nation’s history, $200 million from the State of Texas tobacco settlement, the GCCRI is part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, an integrated medical campus comprised of five schools: Medical, Dental, Nursing, Allied Health, and Graduate Schools, the latter housing the basic science departments of the UT Health Science Center.
The Greehey CCRI is organized around four major programs and shared core facilities and is an integrated matrix organization comprised of an interdisciplinary group of faculty spanning multiple Departments and Schools of UT Health Science Center.
Housed in a new state-of-the-art research building on the North Campus of UT Health Science Center, the Greehey CCRI is well-positioned to have a major impact not limited to merely boosting the scientific profile of San Antonio and South Texas. The impact will extend to development of regional, national and international scientific linkages for basic and translational cancer research and clinical trials. Though the Greehey CCRI is not organized or equipped as a cancer treatment facility, clinical investigations will be conducted through collaboration.