# Cancer Population Sciences (CPS)

> **NIH NIH P30** · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · 2022 · $72,344

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract: Cancer Population Sciences 
The Cancer Population Sciences (CPS) Program brings together 40 faculty, representing 12 departments at 
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine (Geisel), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DH) and the White 
River Junction VT Veterans Administration Medical Center (VA), with research interests relevant to the three 
central CPS Program themes: 1) Life course cancer epidemiology, 2) Translational population science, and 3) 
Health care delivery science. The shared goals of the CPS Program are to: 1) conduct population-based 
studies to understand the molecular, behavioral and environmental basis of cancer occurrence and outcomes 
across the life course; 2) establish a scientific basis for policies and practices that improve cancer screening, 
quality of care delivery, and health outcomes across the cancer continuum, from prevention to survivorship; 
and 3) design and test interventions and promote policies that reduce cancer risk and cancer burden in our 
catchment area, nationally and beyond. Peer-reviewed cancer-related research direct cost support currently 
totals $8.7M, with NCI funding representing 32% ($2.8M) and total direct costs summing to $9.6M. Sixteen (16) 
CPS Program Members currently have a total of 17 CCSG-defined R01-equivalent awards. Using the same 
NCI definition of cancer-related direct costs in 2014, peer-reviewed cancer-related research direct costs are 78 
% compared to 2014, but per Member funding is up 6% ($216,234 for 40 Members vs. 204,161 for 57 
Members). Since 2015, the CPS Program has 994 cancer-related publications, 31% (311) intra-programmatic, 
9% (93) inter-programmatic, and 75% (743) with investigators from other institutions. Based on 926 with impact 
data, 20% (181) were high impact journals (i.e., impact factor >8). Compared to 2014, intra-programmatic 
publications have increased, to 31% from 29%, and high impact has increased, to 20% from 16%. Prior to the 
2018 Program reorganization, our two population science programs had inter-programmatic publication rates 
of 13% and 19%, which matched the range (13-19%) they reported in 2014. The CPS program leaders have 
defined program-level and theme-specific plans for future growth. These include enhanced, trans-disciplinary 
mentorship of junior investigators by senior faculty in multiple disciplines; the development and support of 
subject workgroups (e.g. obesity, microbiome, breast cancer, tobacco regulatory and geospatial research) to 
build collaborations that cross the disciplines of population science and beyond; and continued growth of 
training programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10311233
- **Project number:** 5P30CA023108-43
- **Recipient organization:** DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
- **Principal Investigator:** Brock C Christensen
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $72,344
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-08-04 → 2024-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10311233

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10311233, Cancer Population Sciences (CPS) (5P30CA023108-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10311233. Licensed CC0.

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