UWI-MAD/MLCR
type: Concept
in scheme: providers
definition: The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research (also the Department of Oncology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School) was founded by Dr. Harold P. Rusch in 1940 and was the first basic science cancer center in an academic institution in the United States. The central mission of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research is twofold: 1.To pursue outstanding research programs directed toward understanding the causes and biology of cancer and the factors that regulate normal and neoplastic growth and differentiation. 2. To provide training of the highest quality in basic cancer research at the graduate and postdoctoral levels. Website: http://mcardle.oncology.wisc.edu/ [Summary provided by the University of Wisconsin, Madison.]

ACADEMIC
type: Concept