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|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization) | |OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization) | ||
|Mission=To lead, conduct, and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives. NCI aims to reduce the burden of cancer through research in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. | |Mission=To lead, conduct, and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives. NCI aims to reduce the burden of cancer through research in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. | ||
|ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health | |ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health | ||
|TopOrganization=Department of Health and Human Services | |||
|CreationLegislation=National Cancer Institute Act of 1937 | |CreationLegislation=National Cancer Institute Act of 1937 | ||
|Budget=$6.9 billion (FY 2023) | |Budget=$6.9 billion (FY 2023) | ||
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=== Office of the director === | === Office of the director === | ||
* Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology | * [[Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology]] | ||
* Center for Cancer Genomics | * [[Center for Cancer Genomics]] | ||
** CCG was created in 2011 and is responsible for management of the [[Cancer Genome Atlas]] and cancer genomics initiatives. | ** CCG was created in 2011 and is responsible for management of the [[Cancer Genome Atlas]] and cancer genomics initiatives. | ||
* Center for Cancer Training | * [[Center for Cancer Training]] | ||
* Center for Global Health | * [[Center for Global Health]] | ||
* Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives | * [[Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives]] | ||
** In the 1990s, the Unconventional Innovation Program was created to integrate interdisciplinary technology research with biological applications. It was reorganized in 2004 as the CSSI.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cssi.cancer.gov/about/history|title=History – Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI)|website=cssi.cancer.gov|access-date=2017-09-28|archive-date=2017-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929001136/https://cssi.cancer.gov/about/history|url-status=dead}}</ref> | ** In the 1990s, the Unconventional Innovation Program was created to integrate interdisciplinary technology research with biological applications. It was reorganized in 2004 as the CSSI.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cssi.cancer.gov/about/history|title=History – Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI)|website=cssi.cancer.gov|access-date=2017-09-28|archive-date=2017-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929001136/https://cssi.cancer.gov/about/history|url-status=dead}}</ref> | ||
* Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities | * [[Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities]] | ||
* Center for Research Strategy | * [[Center for Research Strategy]] | ||
* Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials | * [[Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials]] | ||
* Technology Transfer Center | * [[Technology Transfer Center]] | ||
== Programs == | == Programs == | ||
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| [[File:AVonEchenbach2.jpg|100px]] || [[Andrew C. von Eschenbach]] || January 22, 2002 – June 10, 2006 || 12th Director, served from 2001 to 2006 before transitioning to a role as [[Commissioner of Food and Drugs]].<ref name="congressional_record_confirmation">{{cite journal | author = U.S. Congress |date=7 December 2006 | title = Executive Session | journal = Congressional Record | volume = 152 | issue = 134 | pages = S11404–29, S11447–51 | url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2006_record&page=S11404&position=all | access-date = 2006-12-12}}</ref><ref name="confirmation_vote">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00274|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> | | [[File:AVonEchenbach2.jpg|100px]] || [[Andrew C. von Eschenbach]] || January 22, 2002 – June 10, 2006 || 12th Director, served from 2001 to 2006 before transitioning to a role as [[Commissioner of Food and Drugs]].<ref name="congressional_record_confirmation">{{cite journal | author = U.S. Congress |date=7 December 2006 | title = Executive Session | journal = Congressional Record | volume = 152 | issue = 134 | pages = S11404–29, S11447–51 | url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2006_record&page=S11404&position=all | access-date = 2006-12-12}}</ref><ref name="confirmation_vote">{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00274|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> | ||
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| [[File:Jniederhuber-photo.jpg|100px]] || [[John E. Niederhuber]] || September 15, 2006 – July 12, 2010 || 13th Director of the NCI, was nominated by President | | [[File:Jniederhuber-photo.jpg|100px]] || [[John E. Niederhuber]] || September 15, 2006 – July 12, 2010 || 13th Director of the NCI, was nominated by President George W. Bush.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investors.emergentbiosolutions.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=202582&p=irol-govBio&ID=203684 |title=Emergent Biosolutions – Board of Directors bio |access-date=2013-12-06}}</ref> | ||
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| [[File:National Cancer Institute director Harold E. Varmus (3) (cropped).jpg|100px]] || [[Harold Varmus]] || July 12, 2010 – March 31, 2015 || Co-winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.<ref name="Varmus">{{cite web |url=http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |title=Director's Page – National Cancer Institute (Archive) |publisher=Cancer.gov |access-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/5574/20150331220844/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |archive-date=2015-03-31 }}</ref> He was director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] from 1993 to 1999. | | [[File:National Cancer Institute director Harold E. Varmus (3) (cropped).jpg|100px]] || [[Harold Varmus]] || July 12, 2010 – March 31, 2015 || Co-winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.<ref name="Varmus">{{cite web |url=http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |title=Director's Page – National Cancer Institute (Archive) |publisher=Cancer.gov |access-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/5574/20150331220844/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/director/messages/harold-varmus-resignation |archive-date=2015-03-31 }}</ref> He was director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] from 1993 to 1999. | ||