Our training
program has been greatly enhanced by a close relationship with Huntsman
Cancer Institute and the Eccles
Institute of Human Genetics. These institutes house investigators
in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
the Department of Human Genetics,
the multidisciplinary Program in
Human Molecular Biology and Genetics, the Department
of Biochemistry and the Department
of Oncological Sciences. We also have close ties to the Molecular
Biology Research Program, and the Division of Cell Biology and the
Department of
Pathology.
The University has a scientific community with a broad range of interests,
with faculty both at the Medical Center and the adjacent lower
campus. Details of the faculty and their research programs can be
viewed at www.bioscience.utah.edu.
Recently, the Jon M. Huntsman family has made a $151 million commitment
to establish a Cancer Center at the University of Utah. Huntsman
Cancer Institute (HCI) research building opened in February 1999
and houses numerous world-renowned scientists. The Executive Director
of HCI is Mary Beckerle. Huntsman Cancer Institute has recruited
a large group of basic scientists and clinicians to Utah.
Research programs at the University of interest to potential pediatric
hematologist/oncologists include the study of translocations in Ewing
sarcoma, T cell developmental biology, neuro-oncology, Wnt signaling
in developmental biology and cancer, lipid signaling and cancer, as
well as groups studying basic processes in neuro-oncology, transcription,
stem cells, cell cycle regulation, and a large group interested in iron
metabolism.
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