Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore, MD. It was established in 1973 and received its NCI designation that same year as one of the first designated cancer centers in the country.

SKCCC is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of 27 comprehensive cancer centers in the US.

The current director of SKCCC is William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., who has been at JHU since 1992 and specializes in prostate cancer. Past directors have included Albert H. Owens Jr. and Martin Abeloff.

SKCCC is a prolific research institution. Many of the over 100 research laboratories are part of specialized research programs, including the Brain Cancer, Breast & Ovarian Cancer, Cancer Biology, Cancer Chemical & Structural Biology, Cancer Immunology, Cancer Molecular & Functional Imaging, Cancer Prevention & Control, Hematologic Malignancies & Bone Marrow Transplant, Prostate Cancer, and SPORE programs.

The Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy was founded with in 2016 two $50 million gifts from Michael R. Bloomberg and Sidney Kimmel, both of whom have made extensive donations to the university in the past, and an additional $25 million by additional supporters. Drew Pardoll is the founding director.

There are many notable faculty at the SKCCC. Among these are winners of the Lasker Award, Nobel Prize, and Wolfe Prize.

SKCCC is spread across several facilities. Research is mainly done in two buildings. The Bunting Blaustein Cancer Research Building opened in 1999 and is a ten-story laboratory building housing the programs for research in cancer biology, hematological malignancies, urological oncology, gastrointestinal cancer, solid tumor research, pharmacology, and experimental therapeutics, and cancer prevention and control. The Koch Cancer Research Building opened in 2006 and is connected to the Bunting Blaustein Building and houses the prostate, brain, pancreas, skin, lung, and head and neck cancer research programs.

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