University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

CCSG Acknowledgement

Required CCSG Acknowledgement

The NCI requires that publications acknowledge the UPCI CCSG support, and they are tracking compliance. If a UPCI CCSG-supported Shared Facility provided data used in your publication, please include the following statement in the acknowledgment section of your publication(s):

"This project used the UPCI [insert name(s) of shared facility(ies)] that [is/are] supported in part by award P30CA047904."

Shared Facility Directors: Please make sure to include this statement on all of your order forms, contracts, etc. as a reminder to your users to acknowledge the UPCI CCSG support.


Contact & Scheduling

Facility Directors

Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
Co-Director of Cancer Informatics Services, UPCI
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Pathology, Information Sciences and Telecommunications
Email: becich@pitt.edu

Uma Chandran PhD, MSIS
Co-Director of Cancer Informatics Services, UPCI
Director of Genomics Analysis Service, UPCI
Research Associate, Bioinformatics
Email: chandranur@upmc.edu

For scheduling and administrative inquiries please contact:

Linda Mignogna
Administrator, Department of Biomedical Informatics
UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 301
5150 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-623-5922
Fax: 412-623-2814
Email: mignognalk@upmc.edu

Service leaders

Registry Information Services and Honest Broker Services
Sharon Winters
Phone: 412-647-6390
Email: winterssb@upmc.edu

Bioinformatics Services
Uma Chandran
Phone: 412-623-7841
Email: chandranur@upmc.edu

Clinical Trials Management Tools
Michael Davis
Phone: 412-647-5361
Email: davismk@upmc.edu

Tissue Banking Pathology Tools
Mike Becich
Phone: 412-623-3941
Email: becich@pitt.edu