University of Georgia Cancer Center

Welcome to the University of Georgia Cancer Center

Cancer is a complex disease, and we at The University of Georgia Cancer Center are fighting it on four different fronts on behalf of Georgians.

We aim to:

As Georgia’s largest and most comprehensive research university, we’re also committed to educating scientists who will build on the foundation of knowledge that we’re creating - they are Georgia's future cancer researchers and physicians.

We invite you to learn more about our areas of expertise, our people and how you can support the University of Georgia Cancer Center, where we combine Research, Education and Hope.

In the News

Malcolm Steinberg

UGA researchers help explain enzyme's relationship to cancer

For the first time, researchers at the University of Georgia have shown a mechanism that explains how two essential components of the enzyme telomerase are “recruited” from distinct sites in the cell to the telomere, an area at the end of a chromosome that normally protects it from destruction. MORE»

Amazing Students

Sonia Talathi

Sonia Talathi

Sonia Talathi’s interest in health and medicine ranges from the cellular mechanisms involved in prostate cancer to global health education campaigns. She’s presented findings of research that she started as a freshman at a national Society of Toxicology meeting and is working to get her findings published in a peer-reviewed journal. MORE»