About the IU SIMON CANCER CENTER
Our MISSION
Our Senior Leaders
The mission of the IU Simon Patrick J. Loehrer Sr., MD Director
Cancer Center is to advance the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cancer
Sherif Farag, MBBS, PhD Associate Director for Clinical Research
Mark Kelley, PhD Associate Director of Basic Science Research
Harikrishna Nakshatri, BVSc, PhD Associate Director for Education
G. Marie Swanson, PhD Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control Research
throughout Indiana and the world with patient-centered care, acceleration of promising
Michael Darling, MHA Associate Director of Administration
Fuad Hammoudeh Administrator, Cancer Programs, Clarian Health
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center is an Indiana University School of Medicine and Clarian Health partnership. Located in Indianapolis, IU Simon Cancer Center serves as a regional and national referral center for state-of-the-art cancer treatment and is Indiana’s only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center that provides patient care. The partnership between IU School of Medicine and Clarian Health is dedicated to establishing a state-wide health care delivery system that is supported by the scientific resources and clinical expertise of the medical school. The IU Simon Cancer Center research physicians and scientists include more than 200 investigators who conduct research in four programs: Breast Cancer, Cancer Control, Experimental and Development Therapeutics, and Hematopoiesis, Microenvironment, and Immunology. A fifth program, Tumor Biology and Microenvironment, is under development.
This report is also available at www.cancer.iu.edu/news
On the cover: Joseph E. Walther Hall, Indiana University’s largest and newest research building, houses many of the IU Simon Cancer Center’s researchers. On the back cover: The IU Simon Cancer Center's 405,000-square-feet clinical building sits on the IU School of Medicine campus in downtown Indianapolis.
science, and collaborative educational programs.