Nursing Faculty Helps Make U-M Cancer Center Most Federally Funded Center in the Country

School’s seven members contribute to over $87 million in federal grants.

In 2010, the University of Michigan won more than $87 million of funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health) making it the school with the most NCI funding in the entire country. In addition to the extraordinary research and innovation happening at U-M, the school receives such high level funding because it houses an exemplary NIH-designated cancer center.

The School of Nursing faculty contains seven of the over 300 researchers who contribute to the U-M Cancer Center’s success: Dr. Penny Pierce, Dr. Bernadine Cimprich, Dr. Sonia Duffy, Dr. Christopher Friese, Dr. Ellen Lavoie-Smith, Dr. Maria Katapodi, and Dr. Laurel Northouse (who is also the co-director of the socio-behavioral research program).

As Dr. Bernadine Cimprich, associate professor at the School of Nursing, put it, “We are connected to one of the best cancer centers in the country. As a school, we are fortunate to have so many opportunities to work collaboratively with cancer center faculty, clinicians, scientists, and researchers.”