TGen Clinical Research Services

Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have formed a strategic alliance in which Scottsdale Healthcare will become a primary clinical research site for TGen.

The strategic alliance will allow molecular and genomic discoveries made by TGen and others around the world to reach the patient bedside as quickly as possible.

Clinical trials with agents directed at specific targets in patients’ tumors will be launched in November 2005. Phase I clinical trials of two new cancer drugs will also be launched through the alliance.

TGen Clinical Research Services (TCRS) is located in the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center and will be led by Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD, TGen’s Senior Investigator and Director of Translational Drug Development.

TCRS includes:

• Genomics Medicine and Individual Therapy Center
• Pancreatic Cancer Center
• Additional clinical research programs focused on other cancer types are planned.

The combination of world-class researchers, community physicians and university faculty in the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center provides unprecedented access to new therapies for the citizens of Arizona.

Valley residents will be among the first to benefit from new treatments for disease. TCRS will bring new clinical research into the community, to those patients who would otherwise have to travel someplace else for access to new therapies or prevention agents.

“We are honing in on the pathways to help tailor the right drug to the right patient through molecular profiling,” said Dr. Von Hoff. “This new era of personalized genomic medicine offers the ability to examine patients’ tumors for molecular targets, and treat those patients’ tumors with more specialized therapeutics that have potentially fewer side effects.”

According to the National Institutes of Health, only 3% of adults with cancer are participating in clinical trials. A recent study shows that if given the opportunity and access to clinical trials, 63% of the population would participate, according to a survey by the Charlton Research Co.

TGen Clinical Research Services Debi & Jerry Bisgrove Research Pavilion 10510 N. 92nd Street, Suite 200 Scottsdale, AZ 85258

For information about TCRS or participating in a research study, contact the Patient Care Coordinator at 480-323-1339 or jingold@shc.org. To learn more about TGen, click here.