Cancer Campus

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Cancer Campus is a research and innovative campus in oncology located in Villejuif, close to Paris, and launched in April 2006. [1] It is devoted to help to fight cancer.

It is backed by the expertise of the Institut Gustave Roussy and other health institutions and research of the Ile-de-France region. [2]

The goal is to bring together on a single research campus (clinical and academic, public and private) companies, high-level training, a set of partners forming a "biocluster" part of the cluster Medicen. [3]

Cancer Campus is included in one of the main projects for Paris defined by French government. [4] Proposed new public transport systems planned to create a metro station on the campus. [5]

Objectives of Cancer Campus are:

Cancer campus is managed by a voluntary association which members are:

The Caisse des dépôts et consignations is also a partnership, as well as Ile-de-France region, and the business cluster of Medicen.

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