Canary Center
A world-class facility dedicated to cancer early detection research programs.
The mission of The Canary Center at Stanford is to foster research leading to the development of blood tests and molecular imaging approaches to detect and localize early cancers. The center is the first in the world to integrate research on both in vivo and in vitro diagnostics to deliver these tests, by housing state of the art core facilities and collaborative research programs in molecular imaging, proteomics, chemistry, and bioinformatics. These initiatives form a direct pipeline for the translation of early cancer detection research into clinical trials and practice.
The Center supports multiple faculty and more than 100 research affiliates dedicated to research in the early detection of cancer. The Canary Center at Stanford occupies space in a newly renovated School of Medicine building in Palo Alto, along with the Department of Radiology. The Center’s scientific director is Dr. Sanjiv (Sam) Gambhir who leads a variety of programs at Stanford, including the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS). The center will help accomplish our goal of delivering diagnostics tests for all major solid tumor cancers to clinical trial by 2015.
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