Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Roswell Park Cancer Institute is among the oldest National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States.
In 1897, Dr. Roswell Park and Mr. Edward H. Butler, publisher of the Buffalo Evening News, ask the New York State Legislature to introduce a bill that would provide a $7,500 grant to establish a cancer research laboratory in the University of Buffalo School of Medicine.
That bill was passed in 1898, and the New York State Pathological Laboratory of the University of Buffalo the first facility in the world dedicated specifically to cancer research was founded. The facility, which gave birth to what would later be known as Roswell Park Cancer Institute, has been cited as the earliest historical example of direct government interest in cancer research.
In 2008 RPCI was one of 66 facilities nationwide to be honored with a Commission on Cancer (CoC) Outstanding Achievement Award, placing the Institute among the top 15 percent of all the programs surveyed.
Mission: To understand, prevent and cure cancer.
Vision: To position Roswell Park among the top 10 of the Nation's leading cancer centers.
Info found at:
www.roswellpark.org/
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, New York 14263
1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724)
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