$16 Million in Federal Stimulus Funding Establishes Seattle as a Hub of Comparative-Effectiveness Research...($4 million project based at the Hutchins...),Health

Date:10/5/2009

$4 million project based at the Hutchinson Center and led by Ramsey, a member of the Center's Public Health Sciences Division and a professor of medicine at UW School of Medicine, will fund the development of an infrastructure to support the "Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer Genomics," or CANCERGEN. This public-private consortium will design and conduct prospective, controlled clinical trials of promising cancer genetic tests working in close collaboration with the University of Michigan-based Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), one of the largest NCI-supported cancer clinical trials cooperative groups. Researchers in the SWOG Statistical Center, co-located at the Hutchinson Center and the Seattle nonprofit Cancer Research And Biostatistics (CRAB), will design the statistical structure of the study and lead data management and analysis. CANCERGEN will develop the tools that help SWOG researchers determine which proposed trials will have the greatest clinical benefit for patients. "Part of CANCERGEN's vision is to position SWOG as a national leader in cancer comparative-effectiveness research," Ramsey said. "Realizing that vision will go a long way to help achieve the health care reform goal of making cancer treatment more effective and less expensive," he said. Researchers at the UW School of Pharmacy and the Center for Medical Technology Policy in Baltimore will co-lead the effort.

Cancer diagnostics -- A $4 million project based at the UW School of Public Health and led by Larry Kessler, Sc.D., professor and chair of the UW Department of Health Services, will fund research to evaluate the effectiveness of cancer diagnostics -- from mammography and MRI to ultrasound, PET-CT, and blood- or tissue-based biomarkers -- to determine the extent of disease and plan treatment. "Over the past decade, the field of both medical imaging and laboratory-based diagnostics has taken a quantum leap forward. However, the evidence to determine h
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