Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. School of Medicine Cancer Center ^Hubs

The TTUHSC SOM Cancer Center enjoys many collaborations with academic investigators and pharmaceutical companies for development of novel models for studying cancers in the laboratory and using those models to carry out laboratory studies that lead to new therapeutic clinical trials for patients with cancer. One example of these collaborations is our work with the Children's Oncology Group to establish, bank, and distribute patient-derived cell lines and xenografts from children with cancer. The Childhood Cancer Repository (www.CCcells.org) located at the TTUHSC Cancer Center provides these models to hundreds of laboratories across 21 countries. The repository is supported by Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.