Announcements

Georgetown caBIGT collaborator to serve on Computer Advisory Committee

June 21, 2005

Advanced Research Computing is pleased to announce that Frank J. Manion, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Information Science & Technology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia has agreed to serve on our ARC Advisory Committee.

We've had the pleasure of working with Frank as members of the caBIG™ Architecture Working group, and we look forward to his continued guidance and goodwill in helping us develop progressive technology at Georgetown University.

Georgetown Network Links Cancer Studies

Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post

May 19, 2005

Last month, the techies at Georgetown University embarked on a rather ambitious mission: curing cancer. Well, not curing it, perhaps, but helping those who are on the trail of a cure work more closely together by creating a super-network linking 50 cancer institutes spread throughout the country. Georgetown's seven-person A dvanced Research Computing center was hired by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to help build the Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIGT, a project researchers hope will advance cancer treatment over the next 10 years and reduce cancer-related deaths.

Georgetown's involvement came through ARC's expertise in grid computing -- a capability the liberal arts university is hoping will become one of its marquee technology specializations. Grid computing is a relatively new form of networking that links computer systems in different geographic areas to increase their power and allow more users to have access to information.

Read More: Washington Post article

GUMC receives $1M, Funds Granted to Improve Cancer Studies

Joe Corcoran, The Hoya

April 29, 2005

Researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center have received over $810,000 from the National Cancer Institute to help develop a national information network that scholars say could revolutionize the way cancer is researched.

Georgetown's researchers will help develop the $20 million Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, an effort funded by NCI that will allow scientists to quickly search and view research conducted at peer institutions. The network, linking various cancer research centers, could change the way cancer patients are treated while decreasing the time it takes to develop cancer-fighting drugs.

Read More: The Hoya article

Georgetown University Announces New Grants to Help Build National Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

Amy DeMaria, Office of Communications GUMC Press Release

April 22, 2005

Researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced the receipt of more than $800,000 in federal funds to help create the emerging "world wide web of cancer research" - a technological feat that is expected to revolutionize the way that cancer research is conducted in the United States and around the globe.

"This new interactive grid has the potential to change everything -what we do, how we do it, and the speed by which we can develop and bring new therapies to patients," says Robert Clarke, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor of Oncology and Physiology & Biophysics. Clarke leads a team of 15 researchers at Georgetown participating in what is dubbed "caBIG," or the "Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid" project, sponsored and funded by the National Cancer Institute.

Read More: Georgetown University Medical Center news release