The center also conducts regional outreach to improve awareness of cancer risks and access to screening and treatment.
[9] The center's director, Thomas P. Loughran Jr., discovered and is considered a leading expert in large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia.
[16][17] UVA Cancer Center's research findings include: UVA Cancer Center operates the LGL Leukemia Registry, the only national database and specimen bank from patients of the disease.
Analyses of these specimens and other data is anonymously entered into the nationwide databases to support research, to further the development of personalized medicine, and to expedite access to clinical trials.
[27] It was dedicated in 2011 and named for state senator Emily Couric, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2001.