Prostate Cancer

Vancouver partners are the University of British Columbia and its affiliate, The Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital.

The strong history of collaboration among these institutions — themselves all major contributors to prostate-cancer research — was key to getting the grant, said principal investigator Paul Lange, M.D., professor and chair of urology at the UW School of Medicine and an affiliate investigator in Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Division.

"This highly competitive award exemplifies the high caliber of prostate-cancer research among the major medical-research institutions in the Pacific Northwest and the significant ongoing collaborations among researchers from each of the participating institutions," Lange said.

During the past decade, for example, a working group of Seattle prostate-cancer investigators has met regularly to collaborate on projects focused on understanding the hereditary and lifestyle factors behind prostate c...

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