International Programs

The UCI/Hutchinson Center Cancer Alliance is a collaborative venture to establish a state-of-the-art cancer treatment facility located in Kampala, Uganda. The hope of this joint effort between the Hutchinson Center and the Uganda Cancer Institute is the development of new low-cost prevention and treatment strategies for ameliorating the high burden of infection-related cancers. Clinicians and scientists will work together to enhance patient access to care, diagnosis and research-based treatment.

The China Initiative is a collaboration between VIDD, the University of Washington, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and several research institutes in China, including the China Center for Disease Control (CCDC) in Beijing and The Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. The goal of the collaboration is to focus on infectious diseases that threaten global health and combine the best resources of each country to enable early identification of infectious disease outbreaks, as well as to accelerate the development of therapeutics to control these diseases. Examples of resources to be shared are scientific datasets, statistical analysis methods, clinical research protocol development and operation, and cross training of our scientific staff.