São Paulo Branch - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
The São Paulo Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research was established in 1983 at the Hospital do Cancer in São Paulo, Brazil. The Branch's research centers around furthering our understanding of human cancer genetics and the epidemiology of certain human cancers. The Branch has been integrally involved in several state-wide research initiatives, most notably the internationally acclaimed Human Cancer Genome Project, which linked many small facilities together to yield sequence data on genes expressed in cancer. These sequences continue to be important for the annotation of the human genome sequence.