| In the News

The data and analysis provided to the cancer research community by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network is actively changing the face of research and enabling new discoveries. The following links are a selected subset of featured articles that describe the broad impact of TCGA.

The Cancer Genome Atlas to Map 20 Tumor Types
October 6, 2009
NCI Cancer Bulletin
Volume 6/Number 19
During a visit to the NIH campus, President Barack Obama announced that NIH will spend $275 million over the next two years to catalog the genetic changes driving more than 20 types of cancer.

National Brain Tumor Society Awards TCGA Research Network
September 24, 2009
NBTS News
The National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) presented its first Founders Award for Research Excellence jointly to The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center/Duke University Medical Center Group. The award, which is presented to research teams whose investigations hold promise for clinical improvements, recognized the ground-breaking work of these two initiatives in the “major collective advancement in the genomic analysis of gliomas”.

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