Partnership Institutions
- The three Partner institutions are located within a five-mile radius of each other within Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County, Tennessee, sharing complementary interests and strengths
- Each Partner institution offers the others access to facilities, resources, expertise, and special populations the others lack. The following provides a glimpse of what each Partner offers:
The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
- Extensive experience, expertise and collaborative resources for cancer research
- Demonstrated interest, infrastructure and track record in minority health disparities research
- Opportunities for mentoring junior faculty and nurturing student engagement in cancer research in a large multi-faceted research intensive environment in basic, clinical, translational and population-based research
Tennessee State University (TSU)
- Experience and expertise in reaching minority populations through culturally appropriate and sensitive interventions and population-based research
- Local and state-wide access to minority populations
- Training opportunities for minority students
Meharry Medical College (MMC)
- Successful minority patient clinical trials operations and active clinical fellows
- Access to minority patients to draw candidates for cancer disparities research
- Complementary expertise in population-based and basic cancer research for collaborative projects and initiatives
- Training opportunities for minority students
The complementary institutional strengths enable the Partnership to:
- Continue establishing effective cancer research infrastructure and programs
- Offer enhanced training opportunities in cancer research
- Facilitate community and population-based research targeting minority cancer health disparities