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Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center was one of the first cancer centers to receive the NCI designation in 1973. Today, it is the only NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center with three locations in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota.

For more than 50 years, Mayo Clinic has helped transform the nation's cancer research efforts by focusing on a team approach to find new and better ways to prevent, intercept, diagnose and treat cancer. Every year, more than 130,000 people with cancer come to Mayo Clinic from all walks of life and from around the world to receive precision diagnoses and treatments tailored to their exact needs and cancer types.

Read more about the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

Mayo Clinic

Comp
Cheryl L. Willman, MD
Director
200 First Street, S.W
Rochester, MN 55905
(507) 266-4997
Admin Leader
Jolene Summer Bolster
Deputy Director, Administration

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Advanced Clinical Trials and Translational Sciences Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD; Leif Bergsagel, MD; Amy Degnim, MD; Jann Sarkaria, MD
Cancer Cell Genomics, Signaling and Metastasis Panos Anastasiadis, PhD; Zhenkun Lou, PhD; Mark McNiven, PhD
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapeutics Saad Kenderian, MB, CHB; Keith Knutson, PhD; Virginia Shapiro, PhD
Cancer Prevention, Control, and Survivorship Janice Krieger, PhD; Kathryn Ruddy, MD; Lila Rutten, PhD
Cancer Risk Assessment, Early Detection and Interception Ajit Goenka, MD; Shaji Kumar, MD; Mark Sherman, PhD
Novel Therapeutics and Therapeutic Modalitities Mitesh Borad, MD; Scott Kaufmann, MD,PhD; Robert Mutter, MD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genome Analysis Stephen Murphy, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Immune Monitoring JC Villaboas Bisneto, MD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Microscopy and Cell Analysis Jeffrey Salisbury, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Pharmacology Joel Reid, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Proteomics Akhilesh Pandey, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Transgenic and Knockout Darren Baker, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control Survey Research Kathleen Yost, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing Mine Cicek, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Pathology Research Thomas Flotte, MD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics Karla Ballman, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics Bioinformatics Karla Ballman, PhD
Last Updated
April 21, 2025