# Carle Cancer Center NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP)

> **NIH NIH UG1** · CARLE FOUNDATION · 2022 · $1,938,046

## Abstract

SUMMARY ABSTRACT
Carle Cancer Center in Urbana, Illinois, a current NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), is
applying for renewed funding to continue its commitment to provide cancer prevention, control, screening, and
care delivery research in the community setting. Joining in our efforts are affiliate institutions, Rush-Copley
Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois and St. Vincent Anderson in Anderson, Indiana.
Together, the NCORP affiliate institutions' objectives are to engage institutions and communities in the
participation of research to advance all aspects of cancer care. The goal is to optimize the personal and
institutional advances in health care through research that becomes readily transferable across other health care
systems and populations for the benefit of all. The Carle NCORP is devoted to engage all members and
communities to be represented in clinical and translational research. Over the next six years, the Carle NCORP
will continue to recruit, train, and mentor any population or health system in the region to similarly participate in
clinical research.
Carle's strength is its highly integrated health care system, from top to bottom (organizationally and
electronically), comprised of 928 primary care and specialty providers, all invested in a research culture. The
Carle NCORP's three main strengths are cancer control, prevention, and care delivery research, novel imaging,
and capabilities to acquire bio-specimens. Attributes in place to ensure a successful NCORP include:
 • Over 35 years of community research oncology experience
 • Multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional integration
 • Significant rural and diverse population in eastern Illinois and portions of Indiana
 • High accrual particularly with cancer control, prevention, and care delivery trials
 • Cross discipline research initiatives at Carle Foundation Hospital, Rush Copley, and St. Vincent
Anderson
 • Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute infrastructure and support
 • Institutional support for the underserved and for the research program as a whole
 • Affiliation with academic centers
 • Initiatives for imaging, bio-specimen, electronic data mining
 • High quality data
 • Strong regulatory processes

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10475779
- **Project number:** 5UG1CA189861-09
- **Recipient organization:** CARLE FOUNDATION
- **Principal Investigator:** KENDRITH Martin ROWLAND
- **Activity code:** UG1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,938,046
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-08-08 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475779

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10475779, Carle Cancer Center NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) (5UG1CA189861-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10475779. Licensed CC0.

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