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Grants to NCI-Designated Cancer Centers

NCI-designated cancer centers are institutions dedicated to research to develop more effective approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.  Find an NCI designated cancer center near you and learn about its patient services and research capabilities.

The grant count and amounts include multi-year funded awards and the FY 2021 Cancer Moonshot funds, excludes carryover obligations for fiscal years 2017 through 2020.

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NCI-Designated Cancer Center Totals, FY 2021
(Dollars in Thousands)
Mechanism Count Amount
*Includes multi-year funded awards and FY 2021 Cancer Moonshot funds, excludes carryover obligations for fiscal years 2017 through 2020.
**Per the National Institutes of Health's Office of Extramural Research (OER) "Count Rules" & guidelines policy, updated each fiscal year with limits based on the cost center and division; this category is to be reported as zero.
*Total P30 Core Grants 71 $329,505
Planning Grants (P20s) 16 4,375
**Other Cancer Center Grants 0

10,719

Total Cancer Centers 87 $344,599
NCI-Designated Cancer Centers by State (P30 Core Grants), FY 2021
(Dollars in Thousands)
State Grantee Institution Code Count Amount
Alabama University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Core 1 $5,155
Arizona University of Arizona Comprehensive Core 1

4,459

California Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope Comprehensive Core 1 3,928
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Basic Core 1 3,067
Sanford Burnham Prenys Medical Discovery Institute Basic Core 1 4,082
Stanford University Comprehensive Core 1 3,454
University of California Davis Comprehensive Core 1 3,501
University of California Los Angeles Comprehensive Core 1 5,517
University of California San Diego Comprehensive Core 1 5,258
University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Core 1 8,627
University of California Irvine Comprehensive Core 1 0
University of Southern California Comprehensive Core 1 6,282
Colorado University of Colorado Denver Comprehensive Core 1 4,086
Connecticut Yale University Comprehensive Core 1 4,712
District of Columbia Georgetown University Comprehensive Core 1 2,652
Florida H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Comprehensive Core 1 3,119
University of Miami School of Medicine Clinical Core 1 2,272
Georgia Emory University Comprehensive Core 1 2,724
Hawaii University of Hawaii at Manoa Clinical Core 1 2,156
Illinois Northwestern University at Chicago Comprehensive Core 1 6,708
University of Chicago Comprehensive Core 1 4,533
Indiana Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ at Indianapolis Comprehensive Core 1 3,246
Purdue University West Lafayette Basic Core 1 1,860
Iowa University of Iowa Comprehensive Core 1 3,077
Kansas University of Kansas Medical Center Clinical Core 1 2,272
Kentucky University of Kentucky Clinical Core 1 2,303
Maine Jackson Laboratory Basic Core 1 2,459
Maryland Johns Hopkins University Comprehensive Core 1 7,721
University of Maryland Baltimore Comprehensive Core 1 3,158
Massachusetts
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Comprehensive Core 1 12,615
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Basic Core 1 3,755
Michigan University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Comprehensive Core 1 7,020
Wayne State University Comprehensive Core 1 2,889
Minnesota Mayo Clinic in Rochester Comprehensive Core 1 5,980
University of Minnesota Comprehensive Core 1 4,176
Missouri Washington University Comprehensive Core 1 6,346
Nebraska University of Nebraska Medical Center Clinical Core 1 2,395
New Hampshire Dartmouth College Comprehensive Core 1 3,401
New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Comprehensive Core 1 3,325
New Mexico University of New Mexico Health Science Center Comprehensive Core 1 3,508
New York Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University Clinical Core 1 3,405
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Basic Core 1 4,495
Columbia University Health Sciences Comprehensive Core 1 5,552
Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Clinical Core 1 3,138
New York University School of Medicine Comprehensive Core 1 4,196
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corp Comprehensive Core 1 4,776
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Comprehensive Core 1 14,147
North Carolina Duke University Comprehensive Core 1 6,519
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Comprehensive Core 1 8,216
Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Core 1 2,438
Ohio Case Western Reserve University Comprehensive Core 1 5,746
Ohio State University Comprehensive Core 1 6,027
Oklahoma University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Clinical Core 1 2,956
Oregon Oregon Health and Science University Comprehensive Core 1 2,710
Pennsylvania Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center Comprehensive Core 1 1,435
Thomas Jefferson University Clinical Core 1 2,874
University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Core 1 9,736
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh Comprehensive Core 1 6,034
Wistar Institute Basic Core 1 2,715
South Carolina Medical University of South Carolina Clinical Core 1 2,156
Tennessee St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Comprehensive Core 1 6,618
Vanderbilt University Comprehensive Core 1 8,071
Texas Baylor College of Medicine Comprehensive Core 1 3,916
University of Texas Health Science Center Clinical Core 1 2,392
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Comprehensive Core 1 11,893
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Comprehensive Core 1 4,306
Utah University of Utah Comprehensive Core 1 4,487
Virginia University of Virginia Clinical Core 1 2,603
Virginia Commonwealth University Clinical Core 1 2,174
Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Comprehensive Core 1 10,770
Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison Comprehensive Core 1 5,206
Total P30 Core Grants      71 329,505

 

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