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The Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center


George Coukos, MD, PhD

Director

University of Pennsylvania
Health System

Department of Ob/Gyn
3400 Spruce Street
1000 Ravdin Courtyard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: (215)662-3316
Fax: (215)

gcks@mail.med.upenn.edu

The Center's goal is to identify new detection methods, develop new prevention approaches and therapies and improve the quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.

The Center provides an infrastructure for ovarian cancer research and treatment and serves as a catalyst to unite existing talent at Penn, recruit new investigators and promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the field of ovarian cancer research.

The new Center has three major research programs:

The ovarian cancer early detection and prevention program develops new detection tools such as biomarkers and imaging technologies, as well as new prevention methods. The advanced therapeutics program develops new treatment approaches that will hopefully increase women's chances for cure. Each program conducts translational research, therefore offering clinical trials testing the effectiveness of the detection, prevention and therapeutic methods discovered.

The ovarian cancer biology and pathogenesis program has a more fundamental discovery focus, with the aim to understand the pathogenesis and biology of ovarian cancer and feed the other two programs with ideas and information from which detection, prevention and therapeutic concepts can be developed.


Active Clinical Trials

For a complete listing of all active clinical trials, please visit: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/obgyn/research/trials.htm


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