Hollings Cancer Center | Office of Cancer Centers

The MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, founded in 1993, became an NCI-Designated Cancer Center in 2009 and is the state’s only designated cancer center. It is located within the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), serving a population that is 75% rural and which includes some of the most medically underserved regions within the country. The center’s mission is to reduce the cancer burden in South Carolina and beyond through high-quality cancer care, clinical research, professional education, and community outreach programs.

Medical University of South Carolina

Clinical

Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD
Director

86 Jonathan Lucas Street
MSC 955
Charleston, SC 29425

(843) 792-8284

Admin Leader

Travis Poole, MHA
Chief Administrative Officer

COE Leader

Marvella Ford, PhD
Associate Director, Population Science and Community Outreach and Engagement

CRTEC Leader

Benjamin Toll, PhD
Associate Director, Education and Training

PED Leader

Nicholas Shungu, MD
Associate Director, Office of Programs to Enhance Diversity

Research Programs

Research Program	Program Leaders
Cancer Biology and Immunology	Philip Howe, PhD; Sophie Paczesny, MD, PhD; Shikhar Mehrotra, PhD
Cancer Control	Matthew Carpenter, PhD; Ashish Deshmukh, PhD
Developmental Cancer Therapeutics	Nancy Klauber-DeMore, MD; John O'Bryan, PhD

Shared Resources

Category	Resource	Directors
N/A	Biorepository and Tissue Analysis Shared Resource	Steven Carroll, MD, PhD
N/A	Biostatistics Shared Resource	Elizabeth Hill, PhD
N/A	Cell and Molecular Imaging Shared Resource	John Lemasters, MD, PhD
N/A	Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Shared Resource	Amanda LaRue, PhD
N/A	Lipidomics Shared Resource	Besim Ogretmen, PhD
N/A	Translational Science Laboratory Shared Resource	Jian Ouyang, PhD

Last Updated

June 5, 2024