Cancer is the leading cause of death globally. The mission of the center is to identify novel therapeutic targets and develop new anti-cancer drugs using interdisciplinary, computational and biopharmaceutical technologies. Research areas covered in the center are broad, which include, but not limited to, cancer biology, immunology, pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, microbiology, gene & protein engineering, pharmacogenomics, biopharmaceuticals, cancer vaccines, gene therapy, drug safety evaluation and clinical trials, etc.