# Cancer Center Administration

> **NIH CA P30** · WISTAR INSTITUTE · 2026 · $284,117

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – CANCER CENTER ADMINISTRATION
The Administration of the Wistar Cancer Center unites scientific and administrative priorities in a highly
consultative, transparent, and science-focused continuum to achieve programmatic goals. This is aided by the
near complete equivalence between Institute and Cancer Center (90% of Wistar faculty are Cancer Center
members), a unified leadership structure where an experienced Cancer Center Director is also Institute President
and Chief Executive Officer, and a seamless integration of Cancer Center leadership with all institutional
decision-making venues. Leveraging a focused and effective set of advisory Cancer Center committees,
expansive new leadership and staff appointments, and faculty-driven consultative venues, Cancer Center
Administration proactively unites all institutional stakeholders into “ownership” of research goals, incorporates
timely feedback on strategic priorities, prioritizes resource allocation, and enables informed and opportunity-
driven decision-making. The outcome has been transformative for the Cancer Center. During the last Cancer
Center Support Grant (CCSG) budget period, the continuum of Cancer Center Administration coordinated the
recruitment of 17 new Cancer Center members at all academic ranks, completed a strategic realignment of
Cancer Center Programs with the launch of a new, Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling (GRCS) Program,
prioritized an unprecedented, $14.8 million expansion of all eight CCSG-supported Shared Resources, and
supported innovative “work-study” programs that transformed the paradigm of workforce development, job
creation and public-private partnership in the region. Through a comprehensive and codified process of best
practice Cancer Center governance, Administration oversaw the strategic allocation of pilot project funds that
enabled new initiatives in population health science and cancer risk, advanced four Wistar discoveries in viral
oncogenesis, mitochondria-fue

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11333658
- **Project number:** 2P30CA010815-57
- **Recipient organization:** WISTAR INSTITUTE
- **Principal Investigator:** Dario C Altieri
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** CA
- **Fiscal year:** 2026
- **Award amount:** $284,117
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01T00:00:00 → 2031-02-28T00:00:00

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11333658

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11333658, Cancer Center Administration (2P30CA010815-57). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11333658. Licensed CC0.

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