The UF Health Cancer Center has established inter-programmatic working groups designed to align with and advance the strategic aims of the center. Working groups partner closely with UF Health Cancer Center leadership to support innovative research efforts in key scientific areas. These working groups serve as dynamic platforms for fostering investigator interaction and creating new collaborations. The ultimate goal is to increase the submission of multi-PI grant applications. Participants in the working groups include research program members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research faculty from across UF, promoting a multidisciplinary and engaging research environment.
Breast Cancer Working Group
The mission of the Breast Cancer Working Group is to create a unique group for collaborations between the University of Florida and University of Florida – Jacksonville faculty, co-PI grant applications, and networking for planning future collaborations based on different areas of expertise.
Cancer AI Working Group
The mission of the Cancer AI Working Group is to develop collaborative research, expertise and network capacity in artificial intelligence (AI) at the UF Health Cancer Center.
Cancer Health Disparities Working Group
The mission of the Cancer Health Disparities Working Group is to transform oncology research practices using a spectrum of implementation tactics aimed toward human and social interaction research to reduce health differences.
Cardio-Oncology Working Group
The mission of the Cardio-Oncology Working Group is to create a unique multidisciplinary group to foster a collaborative environment between researchers and clinicians who are interested in the field of cardio-oncology (cardiotoxicity of anticancer therapies) to improve the outcomes of cancer patients. The objectives of this working group are to advance cardio-oncology through basic and translational research and to foster early-career investigators.
Lung Cancer Working Group
The mission of the Lung Cancer Research Working Group is to bring together basic, translational and clinical researchers to strengthen lung cancer research with the goal of reducing this major cancer burden in our catchment area and beyond.
Tobacco Control Working Group
The UF Health Cancer Center Tobacco Control Working Group brings together public health, translational and clinical researchers with the common goal of investigating ways to reduce and ultimately eliminate tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.
Virology Working Group
The mission of the Virology Working Group is to strengthen the interactions between Cancer Center investigators who work in virology and other virologists.
Interest Groups
Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy Interest Group
The mission of the Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy Interest Group is to promote career development of physician-scientists and develop new investigator-initiated immunotherapies while bolstering the submission/securement of pediatric immunotherapy focused program project grants and core resources within veterinary comparative oncology and bioengineering. The group works within the Immuno-Oncology and Microbiome Research Program.
