About the Research Group

Mission

• Designs, develops, implements and monitors research efforts for gastrointestinal and other cancers in the areas of chemoprevention, nutrition, and other prevention strategies that include nutritional, pharmacologic, biologic, genetic, vaccines or immunologic interventions and cancer screening and early detection.
• Designs, develops and implements research through clinical trials screening, testing and validating new technologies that identify premalignant lesions.
• Monitors clinical trials to develop agents using measures of efficacy that include modulation of surrogate endpoint biomarkers or cancer incidence reduction.
• Interacts and communicates with extramural and intramural investigators in other NCI divisions and organizations of the National Cancer Program.

Staff

• Richard Carter
• Gary Della'Zanna, DO
• Brian Reid, MD, PhD
• Ellen Richmond, RN, MS, AOCN
• Luz Maria Rodriguez, MD, FACS
• Asad Umar, DVM, PhD

Phone

(240) 276-7070

U.S. Mail Address

Gastrointestinal & Other Cancers Research Group
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
9609 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

Commercial Delivery Address

Gastrointestinal & Other Cancers Research Group
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
9609 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

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