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Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities

The Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities (IECD) connects across all seven HCC member institutions to advance HCC’s commitment to reducing cancer disparities. The IECD has many facets, but one primary goal — to eliminate racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in cancer prevention, outcomes, care, and survivorship.


CURE Celebrates 20 Years of Education, Excellence and Workforce Equity

Please join us as we feature our alumni’s excellence and success every month in hopes that it will give you a sense of what the program has accomplished, and if you are at the beginning of your educational journey, what you can achieve if you join.

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CURE News

  • January 27, 2026 – Community

    From November 19-22 in San Antonio, Texas, thousands of young researchers gathered at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS). One of the nation’s premier undergraduate and…