ABOUT LCRC

Our mission

To work across institutional boundaries to reduce the impact of cancer throughout Louisiana and the Gulf region through locally focused high-impact cancer research, patient care, education, and community outreach and engagement done in alignment with our unique cultural, ethnic, and environmental characteristics.

Our vision

The Louisiana Cancer Research Center exists to serve the people of Louisiana. Our job is simple: to build a healthier community by creating more personal victories in the fight against cancer—and the tactics that treat and prevent it.

What we do

LCRC membership includes more than 200 researchers representing strong inter- and intra-disciplinary activity across the member institutions. We maintain shared resource cores that support laboratory, clinical and population sciences research. Our strengths include molecular genetics and signaling, proteomics, immunology, infection and inflammation, viral oncology, drug discovery, and minority health and health disparities.

our History

The Louisiana Cancer Research Center of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and Tulane Health Sciences Center (LCRC) was created in 2002 by the Louisiana State Legislature with the primary strategic objective of building a consortium cancer center worthy of such official designation by the National Cancer Institute. Since inception, our mission has been to develop a coordinated cancer research, education, and clinical programs that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinical treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection, treatment, and prevention of cancer in the region; and promote regional economic growth.