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Harvard Cancer Consortium (HCC) membership grants access to Consortium-sponsored core facilities at a reduced rate, clinical research support for protocol management, and members-only developmental funding opportunities. The Consortium promotes opportunities for collaboration among members through Program retreats, symposia, and publications and communications highlighting research and news across HCC.

Harvard Cancer Consortium (HCC) is a research consortium of more than 1,100 cancer researchers across five Boston academic medical institutions and two Harvard Schools. HCC, an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center funded through a Cancer Center Support Grant awarded by the NCI, is one of the largest cancer research consortia in the country.

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Responsibilities of members include active participation in a HCC program, adherence to the HCC Protocol Review and Monitoring System for the creation and implementation of all HCC-sponsored clinical cancer research, and acknowledgement of use of Cancer Center shared resources on research publications.

Both the NCI and HCC consider membership in a cancer center a privilege, and take very seriously the approval review processes for membership. Every three years, HCC membership status is reviewed. Program leaders conduct annual reviews of program membership to determine which individuals should and should not continue as program members based upon contributions to and participation in the activities and research.

  • Full Membership

    Full membership in HCC is open to all Harvard faculty of Instructor level or above who complete and submit an online application, together with a current NIH biosketch, including other support pages as required by the NCI, and who meet the following requirements:

    • Principal Investigator or Project Leader on a peer-reviewed cancer-relevant grant, or
    • Co-investigator on a peer-reviewed cancer relevant grant, a primary focus of which is population science, or
    • An Investigator who participates in clinical cancer research (patient-oriented and/or population science-based) through protocol development or implementation, or
    • A newly independent investigator in the cancer field with start-up support from his/her academic department, and
    • The endorsement of the candidate by the Leader of the Program that the candidate proposes to join.

  • Associate Membership

    A candidate for Associate Membership must be:

    • A faculty member of a non-HMS/HSPH, non-HCC-affiliated organization that does not have its own NCI-designated Cancer Center and is engaged in collaborative research with a member(s) of HCC; the nature of such collaboration must be essential to the goals of HCC, or
    • An independent researcher in a field(s) not represented by traditional academic departments at HMS or HSPH (e.g., nursing, oncology social work, complementary and alternative medicine) whose efforts are deemed important or essential to the goals of HCC and who does not meet standard criteria for membership.

    The Associate Member category applies to researchers whose expertise is deemed critical to the mission of HCC but do not hold faculty appointments at HMS or HSPH. The Associate Member designation also applies to Harvard-affiliated professionals who do not hold independent faculty posts but contribute in a significant way to research important to disease-based programs.

Applying for Membership

Before you begin the application for HCC membership, please have your Harvard ID ready, and an electronic version of your current NIH Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Other Support Common Form on your computer or in an accessible file. You will be required to upload these documents during this application.

Please note that the current NIH Biosketch format has been updated and is required for use beginning in May, 2021. You may download the updated template by clicking on one of the links below:

Instructions for completing

This application will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. If you need to stop in the middle of the application process, you may save your application and return to it later by clicking on the "Save and Exit" button located on the bottom of the application page. 

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