The University of New Mexico (UNM) Comprehensive Cancer Center received funding from the New Mexico state legislature in 1971 and, in 2003, the legislature designated it as the official cancer center of New Mexico. In 2005, it became New Mexico’s only NCI-Designated Cancer Center and in 2015 it received the comprehensive cancer center designation.
To ensure that all New Mexicans have access to world-class cancer care and benefit from advances in cancer research, the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to provide outstanding cancer diagnosis and treatment, conduct world-class research to discover the causes and the cures for cancer, educate the next generation of cancer health care professionals, and overcome the significant cancer health disparities in the Southwest through community-based outreach programs.
The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has established research collaborations with the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and New Mexico State University. Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute is a consortium partner of the cancer center bringing complementary expertise in the causes, mechanisms, and detection of lung cancer and drug development.
The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center is committed to providing compassionate, cutting-edge, multidisciplinary cancer care to all New Mexicans. At the center, New Mexicans have access to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cancer surgery, genetic cancer assessment, clinical trials, supportive care, and a pharmacy under one roof. The facility has 17 clinic and service lines, including New Mexico’s only bone marrow and stem cell transplant program.
Read more about the University of New Mexico Cancer Research & Treatment Center.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Director
MSC 07-4025 Room 4642
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Associate Center Director for Community Outreach and Engagement
Associate Center Director for Education, Training & Mentoring
Cancer Center Director; Acting AD for PED/DE
Research Programs
Research Program | Program Leaders |
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Cancer Control and Population Science | Shiraz Mishra; Cindy Blair |
Cancer Therapeutics | Eric Prossnitz; Sarah Adams |
Cellular and Molecular Oncology | Michelle Ozbun; Steve Belinsky |
Training | Angela Wandinger-Ness |
Shared Resources
Category | Resource | Directors |
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Cat 1: Laboratory Science | Analytical Translational Genomics (ATG) | Scott Ness |
Cat 1: Laboratory Science | Animal Models | Mara Steinkamp |
Cat 1: Laboratory Science | Flow Cytometry | Jennifer Gillette |
Cat 1: Laboratory Science | Fluorescence Microscopy & Cell Imaging | Diane Lidke |
Cat 1: Laboratory Science | Translational Science | Sarah Adams |
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control | Behavioral Measurement & Population Science (BMPS) | Dolores Guest |
Cat 4: Clinical Research | Human Tissue Repository & Tissue Analysis (HTR-Tissue) | Dennis McCance; Edgar Fischer |
Cat 6: Biostatistics | Biostatistics | V Pankratz |
Cat 7: Informatics | Bioinformatics | Yan Guo; Jeremy Edwards |