Mission Statement: To foster multidisciplinary collaboration towards promoting scientific advancement in the prevention, treatment, and understanding of colorectal cancer.
Vision Statement: We believe that sound science inspired by collective knowledge, creativity, and patient-centeredness can reduce suffering, prevent disease, and improve the care of patients with colorectal cancer.
Key Objectives:
- Provide a space to share work, ask questions, and provide feedback on existing projects.
- Cultivate new partnerships and opportunities for collaboration in developing new projects.
- Generate scientifically relevant, clinically applicable, and feasible research questions.
- Provide cross-disciplinary mentorship for faculty and trainees.
- Collate and maintain an ongoing repository of available data (databases, tissue banks, clinical trial secondary analyses, etc.) that has the potential to be accessed, shared, and re-analyzed.