Dr. Janet A. Houghton, a renowned cancer researcher from St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has been selected as the new Chair of the Department of Cancer Biology. Dr. Houghton arrived on October 23, 2006 to begin working towards her goals of recruiting new Faculty to the Department, supporting and building upon existing leading research programs, and promoting collaborations with clinical and translational researchers. How to Support Cancer Biology Research
You can help our Department achieve its goals of understanding the biological mechanisms underlying human cancers and developing new improved strategies for their treatment.
"Cleveland Clinic began as a research institution. Our discoveries today are the new therapies, the new drugs and new treatments for patients five, ten, fifteen years from now. Without the research that’s being done in these laboratories, there’d be no real advances."
-Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D.
Chair, Lerner Research Institute