Rice University and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Establish Center for Computational Cancer Research
Center goal is to speed detection, treatment, and prevention of cancer

RiceUniversity and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are teaming together to apply high-level computer science to efforts to understand, treat and ultimately prevent cancer.

Rice receives $2.5M to fund collaborative projects
John Doerr ’73, one of the venture capitalists behind Google, and his wife, Ann Doerr ’75, have given $2.5 million to Rice to support collaborative projects that apply computational science to biomedical research.

CITI accepts proposals until Oct. 25
The Gulf Coast Center for Computational Cancer Research (GC4R) is preparing to award up to $500,000 in seed funding for innovative research involving collaboration between Rice University and the Texas Medical Center (TMC).

Seed funding to stimulate Rice, TMC collaboration
New nanotechnology for detecting cancer and patient-specific computer modeling for studying blood flow are some of the advances that might result from research funded this year by the Collaborative Advances in Biomedical Computing (CABC) program by the Gulf Coast Center for Computational Cancer Research (GC4R).