Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership (MI/CCP)

The Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership (MI/CCP), initiated in 2001, is a program that enables minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and NCI Cancer Centers (CCs) to train scientists from diverse backgrounds in cancer research and to effectively deliver cancer advances to racially and ethnically diverse communities.

The overall goals of the program are to:

• Build research and training capacity at MSIs.
• Create stable, long-term collaborations between MSIs and CCs in research, training, career development, and outreach.
• Improve effectiveness of CC research, education, and outreach for underserved populations.
• Export successful approaches for addressing disparities to all CCs and other key networks and consortiums.

The MI/CCP establishes partnerships through three mechanisms:

• Feasibility Studies for Collaborative Interaction for Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnerships (P20)
• Cooperative Planning Grant for Comprehensive Minority Institution/ Cancer Center Partnership (U56)
• Comprehensive Minority Institution/ Cancer Center Partnership (U54)

• MI/CCP Goals and Objectives

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• Listing of Current MI/CCP Partnerships

  View detailed information about NCI/CRCHD’s currently funded MICCP partnerships.

• MI/CCP Historical Information

  Find useful information about the development of the MI/CCP program.