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Grants to NCI-Designated Cancer Centers

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers are institutions dedicated to research to develop more effective approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. Find an NCI-Designated Cancer Center near you and learn about its patient services and research capabilities.

The grant count and amounts include multi-year funded awards and the fiscal year 2023 Cancer Moonshot funds, excludes carryover obligations for fiscal years 2022 through 2017.

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NCI-Designated Cancer Center Totals, Fiscal Year 2023
(Dollars in Thousands)
MechanismCountAmount
*Total P30 Core Grants
(includes multi-year funded awards)
72$345,557
Planning Grants (P20s)10$2,777
**Other Cancer Center Grants0$5,169
Total Cancer Centers82$353,503
**Per the National Institutes of Health's Office of Extramural Research (OER) "Count Rules" & guidelines policy, updated each fiscal year with limits based on the cost center and division; this category is to be reported as zero.
NCI-Designated Cancer Centers by State (P30 Core Grants), Fiscal Year 2023
(Dollars in Thousands)
StateGrantee InstitutionCodeCountAmount
AlabamaUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamComprehensive Core1$5,907
ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaComprehensive Core1$3,937
CaliforniaBeckman Research Institute/City of HopeComprehensive Core1$4,789
Salk Institute for Biological StudiesBasic Core1$3,067
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery InstituteBasic Core1$4,582
Stanford UniversityComprehensive Core1$4,349
University of California, DavisComprehensive Core1$3,551
University of California, Los AngelesComprehensive Core1$6,004
University of California, San DiegoComprehensive Core1$5,241
University of California, San FranciscoComprehensive Core1$8,426
University of California, IrvineComprehensive Core1$2,343
University of Southern, CaliforniaComprehensive Core1$7,279
ColoradoUniversity of Colorado, DenverComprehensive Core1$4,332
ConnecticutYale UniversityComprehensive Core1$4,740
District of ColumbiaGeorgetown UniversityComprehensive Core1$2,590
FloridaH. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research InstituteComprehensive Core1$5,011
University of FloridaClinical Core1$2,331
University of Miami School of MedicineClinical Core1$2,341
GeorgiaEmory UniversityComprehensive Core1$3,857
HawaiiUniversity of Hawai'i at ManoaClinical Core1$2,191
IllinoisNorthwestern University at ChicagoComprehensive Core1$6,528
University of ChicagoComprehensive Core1$4,541
IndianaIndiana University at IndianapolisComprehensive Core1$2,747
Purdue UniversityBasic Core1$1,860
IowaUniversity of IowaComprehensive Core1$2,696
KansasUniversity of Kansas Medical CenterComprehensive Core1$2,809
KentuckyUniversity of KentuckyComprehensive Core1$2,700
MaineJackson LaboratoryBasic Core1$2,507
MarylandJohns Hopkins UniversityComprehensive Core1$9,007
University of Maryland BaltimoreComprehensive Core1$2,664
Massachusetts    
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteComprehensive Core1$13,518
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBasic Core1$3,755
MichiganUniversity of Michigan at Ann ArborComprehensive Core1$7,540
Wayne State UniversityComprehensive Core1$2,936
MinnesotaMayo Clinic RochesterComprehensive Core1$5,930
University of MinnesotaComprehensive Core1$4,252
MissouriWashington UniversityComprehensive Core1$6,766
NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska Medical CenterClinical Core1$3,519
New HampshireDartmouth CollegeComprehensive Core1$3,179
New JerseyRutgers Biomedical and Health SciencesComprehensive Core1$3,225
New MexicoUniversity of New Mexico Health Science CenterComprehensive Core1$2,627
New YorkAlbert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva UniversityComprehensive Core1$4,088
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryBasic Core1$4,495
Columbia University Health SciencesComprehensive Core1$5,808
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiClinical Core1$2,838
New York University School of MedicineComprehensive Core1$4,196
Roswell Park Cancer Institute CorpComprehensive Core1$4,395
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer ResearchComprehensive Core1$14,034
North CarolinaDuke UniversityComprehensive Core1$6,455
University of North Carolina Chapel HillComprehensive Core1$8,047
Wake Forest University Health SciencesComprehensive Core1$2,493
OhioCase Western Reserve UniversityComprehensive Core1$5,673
Ohio State UniversityComprehensive Core1$5,862
OklahomaUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterClinical Core1$3,351
OregonOregon Health & Science UniversityComprehensive Core1$3,383
PennsylvaniaResearch Institute of Fox Chase Cancer CenterComprehensive Core1$0
Thomas Jefferson UniversityClinical Core1$2,871
University of PennsylvaniaComprehensive Core1$9,999
University of PittsburghComprehensive Core1$5,996
Wistar InstituteBasic Core1$2,965
South CarolinaMedical University of South CarolinaClinical Core1$2,343
TennesseeSt. Jude Children's Research HospitalComprehensive Core1$7,691
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterComprehensive Core1$7,521
TexasBaylor College of MedicineComprehensive Core1$3,611
University of Texas Health Science CenterClinical Core1$2,192
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterComprehensive Core1$11,634
University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterComprehensive Core1$4,355
UtahUniversity of UtahComprehensive Core1$5,127
VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaComprehensive Core1$2,603
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityClinical Core1$2,829
WashingtonFred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterComprehensive Core1$10,609
WisconsinUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonComprehensive Core1$5,919
Total P30 Core Grants   72$345,557
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