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.


Overview

The Cancer Informatics Services (CIS) provides equipment and expertise to researchers to assist with their translational research efforts. The CIS at UPCI is composed of the following tightly integrated services:

  1. Registry Information Services - supporting all of the clinical and outcomes annotation of patients in clinical trials and patients who contribute their cancer tissues to the tissue bank
  2. Honest Broker Services - a privacy protection component necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services
  3. Bioinformatics Services - providing comprehensive bioinformatics support, from experimental design to data analysis, for high-throughput genomic studies
  4. Clinical Trials Management Tools - supporting all of the clinical trials at UPCI
  5. Tissue Banking and Pathology Tools - providing systems to integrate clinical data from disparate sources

Clinical Data & Outcomes Diagram