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UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

The University of California (UC) Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCDCCC) is a matrix organization under the aegis of University of California, Davis and UC Davis Health. It is the only NCI-Designated Cancer Center located in the Central Valley of Northern California and thus is best positioned to address the cancer burden of one of the nation’s most productive agricultural regions. The center’s members are organized into five programs (Molecular Oncology, Comparative Oncology, Cancer Therapeutics, Biomedical Technology, and Population Sciences and Health Disparities), supported by eight shared resources. The center uses its transdisciplinary, translational, and transformative research to address and reduce the cancer burden in its highly diverse 19-county catchment area and beyond.  

The cancer center’s clinical operations and principal administrative offices are located in Sacramento while additional UCDCCC administrative space is located on the Davis campus. The cancer center’s clinical services encompass all aspects of cancer care, serving people with cancer across Northern California at its Sacramento headquarters and in its clinics and network sites designed to bring world-class care close to where patients live.

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University of California, Davis

Comp
Primo N. Lara, MD
Director
4501 X Street, Suite 3003
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 734-5800
Gina Dayton, MBA
Chief Administrative Officer
Laura Fejerman, PhD
Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
Frederick Meyers, MD,  
Associate Director, Education, Training and Career Development
David Cooke, MD, FACS
Associate Director for Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEAL)

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Biomedical Technology Orin Bloch, MD; Laura Marcu, PhD
Cancer Therapeutics Kit Lam, MD, PhD; Richard Valicenti, MD
Comparative Oncology Michael Kent, DVM; Robert Canter, MD; Xinbin Chen, DVM, PhD
Molecular Oncology Kermit Carraway, PhD; Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD
Population Sciences and Health Disparities Diana Miglioretti, PhD; Theresa Keegan, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kit Lam, MD, PhD; Ruiwu Liu, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry Barbara Shacklett, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genomics Clifford Tepper, PhD; John McPherson, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science In Vivo Translational Imaging Abhijit Chaudhari, PhD; Allison Zwingenberger, DVM, MAS; Lorenzo Nardo, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Molecular Pharmacology Aiming Yu, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Mouse Biology Kent Lloyd, DVM, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Biorepository Nam Tran, PhD, MS
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics Lihong Qi, PhD; Hong Li, PhD
Last Updated
June 5, 2024