WOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORY INC
Cause Area
- Health & Medicine
Location
931 ISABELLA STNEWPORT, KY 41071 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory, Inc., is a professional, independent, not-for-profit, publicly supported, research institute dedicated to the discovery of new knowledge regarding the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer. Because the Laboratory is a not-for-profit enterprise, no organization or individual profits financially from its operation, and all discoveries resulting from ongoing research are freely given to the scientific and medical community through promptly reported peer-reviewed publications.
Description
Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory, Inc., is a professional, independent, not-for-profit, publicly supported, research institute dedicated to the discovery of new knowledge regarding the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer. All discoveries resulting from ongoing research are freely given to the scientific and medical communities through promptly reported peer-reviewed publications.
Wood Hudson's focus on three areas:
- study of clinical cases and experimental models of cancer to learn new methods of cancer prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment
- study of environmental causes of cancer, particularly food and drinking water chemicals; and
- provision of training and hands-on research for undergraduate students through its Undergraduate Research Education Program.