The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC) has earned renewal of its National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center for another five years. The prestigious distinction recognizes the cancer center’s high caliber of scientific leadership and robust programs in basic, clinical, and population science research, placing it in the top echelon of cancer centers nationwide.
The cancer center — a joint entity of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) — has been approved to receive a support grant of nearly $13 million from the NCI over the next five years, a 14 percent increase over the previous five-year grant award. UMGCCC was named an NCI-designated cancer center in 2008 and was elevated to Comprehensive Cancer Center status — the NCI’s highest designation — in 2016.