Partners
The IU Simon Cancer Center partners with several Indiana University and Purdue University schools and centers, private organizations, as well as a local hospital system to conduct its patient care, research and education. These partnerships bring together talents and resources, and strengthens efforts that are aimed at reducing the burden of cancer in Indiana and beyond.
Clarian Health is composed of the hospitals and clinics of Indiana University School of Medicine, IU Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children and Methodist Hospital. Clarian is committed to excellence in patient care, education and research. IU Simon Cancer Center patient care and clinical research activities take place in Clarian facilities. The Clarian Cancer Program includes a team of individuals to help coordinate the integration and opening of the new IU Simon Cancer Center. Click here for the Clarian Cancer Program team.
Hoosier Oncology Group (HOG) is an innovative program that encourages community physicians to conduct clinical trials. It aims to increase community access to research opportunities. HOG was co-founded by IU Simon Cancer Center Medical Director Patrick J. Loehrer Sr., MD and is chaired by Nasser Hanna. There are more than 400 HOG physicians from eight different states, but the vast majority practice in Indiana.
Indiana University Center for Environmental Health fosters excellence in scientific research, training, and outreach in environmental health with a goal of identifying, understanding and preventing environmentally related diseases covering the human life span. James Klaunig, PhD, IU Simon Cancer Center associate director of strategic partnerships, is director of the center.
Indiana University School of Medicine is the only institution that provides medical education within the state of Indiana. It is committed to providing quality graduate and continuing education that produces outstanding educators, physicians, and scientists; conducting research to advance knowledge of health and behavior and to make discoveries leading to improved prevention and treatment of disease; and providing outstanding clinical care, which incorporates the latest advances in scientific knowledge. Many IU Simon Cancer Center members are IU School of Medicine faculty. The IU Simon Cancer Center collaborates with numerous research institutes and centers of excellence within the IU School of Medicine.
Oncological Sciences Center at Purdue University's Discovery Park has adopted the mission to eliminate cancer as a cause of suffering and death by synergizing and applying the internationally recognized strengths of Purdue University in biological, chemical, engineering and human behavioral sciences to the cancer problem. The Oncological Sciences Center builds in new directions and exciting ways on a foundation laid in place through decades of discoveries and advances in the laboratories of members of Purdue's NCI-designated Cancer Center.
Purdue Cancer Center is an NCI-designated Cancer Center in West Lafayette, Ind., that conducts basic research. It is committed to helping cancer patients by identifying new molecular targets and designing future agents and drugs for effectively detecting and treating cancer. Research programs at the center are divided into three areas: cell growth and differentiation; experimental therapeutics and diagnostics; and structural biology.
The Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research (CHSOR) is an IUPUI campus-wide center funded by Indiana University School of Medicine, the Regenstrief Institute Inc., and the Roudebush VA Medical Center. The mission of the CHSOR is to foster research in accelerating the transformation of healthcare organizations and improving the organization, delivery and outcomes of healthcare. IU Simon Cancer Center member Brad Doebbeling, MD, MSc, is the center’s director.
VA Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (CIEBP) is a national resource with a mission to discover, implement and sustain the adoption of best practices, using health information technology (HIT), to improve healthcare delivery. The center’s goal is to enhance the VA’s organizations and networks capacity for data-driven decision making and to implement and sustain best practices. IU Simon Cancer Center member Brad Doebbeling, MD, MSc, is the center’s founding director.
Walther Cancer Institute's mission is to eliminate cancer as a cause of suffering and death, and it does so by funding some of the best cancer researchers. Its funding stretches across a number of prominent universities in the Midwest, and it encourages scientists to work collaboratively to unlock the mysteries of cancer. IU research programs include a basic science program led by Hal Broxmeyer, PhD (Walther Oncology Center), a behavioral program led by Victoria Champion, DNS (Mary Margaret Walther program), and a clinical program led by Lawrence Einhorn, MD.