Cal, UCSF scientists form cancer research unit

SFGate reports Cal, UCSF scientists form cancer research unit:

Scientists at UC Berkeley and UCSF have formed a research center to explore the physical principles that govern the origin and behavior of cancer cells, and how they multiply in humans.  With a five-year, $15.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the UC researchers have formed the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center where they will seek to understand the mysterious ways that cancer - its onset and responses to radiation and chemotherapy - are subject to the laws of physics.

The NCI announced the new grant Monday and said that related centers with similar goals have been created at 11 other major universities and research centers, and that all the groups will be collaborating with each other.  Physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians will be linked with physicians to probe the mechanisms of the disease's many aspects.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UCSF's Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center also will be included.  The other centers are at Arizona State, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Southern California and Texas, as well as the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla (San Diego County), the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, and the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Center in New York.

Excellent.  A great use of stimulus money, IMNSHO!