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.


Services

The CIS offers the following services:

  • Registry Information Services (RIS) (Key Staff: Winters)
    Two distinct sub-divisions: one handling data collection and dissemination for clinical and hospital operational purposes and the other dedicated to specific efforts and data needs of the research community of the Centers of Excellence within the UPMC CancerCenter and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Learn more
  • Honest Broker Services (HBS) (Key Staff: Winters)
    A collaborative Honest Broker Service, developed for the combined Centers for Pathology and Oncology Informatics and Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research Learn more
  • Bioinformatics Services (Key Staff: Chandran and Luthra)
    Comprehensive bioinformatics support, from experimental design to data analysis, for high-throughput genomic studies View FAQs
  • Clinical Trials Management Tools (Key Staff: Davis)
    A Java-based suite (accessed via a secure intranet) for managing various aspects of a clinical trial Learn more
  • Tissue Banking and Pathology Tools (Key Staff: Becich)
    Systems to integrate clinical data from disparate sources

CIS Services Within the Research Environment

Clinical Data & Outcomes Diagram