Mission

The mission of the Gulf Coast Center for Computational Cancer Research (GC4R) is to foster research that will accelerate the rate at which high-performance software for advanced computational problems in cancer research can be developed. Related goals are to simplify the application development process to make advanced computation more broadly accessible to cancer researchers, and to educate numerical scientists in the fundamentals of cancer biology.

To foster rapid progress, the center aims to establish collaborations between biologists and clinicians and a critical mass of quantitative scientists from bioinformatics, biomathematics, biostatistics and computational science. These collaborations will bring patients together with a team of investigators—including physicians, scientists, research nurses, pharmacists, and biostatisticians—who can evaluate novel and creative approaches to eliminating cancer as rapidly and deliberately as possible.

The GC4R was established by a joint initiative of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University, under the auspices of the Gulf Coast Consortium for Bioinformatics.

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