The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN) provides an infrastructure for applying relevant research to local cancer prevention and control needs.  Its members conduct community-based participatory cancer research across its ten network centers, crossing academic affiliations and geographic boundaries.  The CPCRN forms a subgroup of Prevention Research Centers (PRCs), which are CDC’s flagship program for preventing and controlling chronic diseases.

The CPCRN represents a collaboration of cancer divisions from two federal agencies: The Division of Cancer Prevention and Control  of the CDC's National Center of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences of the National Cancer Institute.


CPCRN Members

Currently the CPCRN is comprised of ten funded research institutions and one funded coordinating center.  For more information about these centers, click here.

  1. Emory University
  2. Harvard University
  3. Texas A&M University
  4. Washington University in Saint Louis
  5. University of California at Los Angeles
  6. University of Colorado at Denver
  7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
  8. University of South Carolina at Columbia
  9. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  10. University of Washington at Seattle


* UNC-Chapel Hill is home both to a CPCRN network site and the network's coordinating center.

The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U48-DP001944 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program and the National Cancer Institute.

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