# UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center

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## TL;DR

Virginia's first NCI comprehensive centre (2021), a leader in melanoma peptide vaccines and therapeutic focused ultrasound.

## Summary

NCI-designated in 1987, UVA became Virginia's first comprehensive cancer centre in 2021 and serves Charlottesville and the Appalachian south-west of the state. Craig Slingluff's decades of melanoma peptide vaccine trials made UVA a reference site for cancer vaccine immunology, complemented by Timothy Bullock's T-cell work. UVA is one of the world's leading centres for therapeutic focused ultrasound, with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation based in Charlottesville and trials in tumour ablation and immune priming. Director Thomas Loughran is the leading authority on large granular lymphocytic leukaemia, and the centre has a busy transplant and haematology service.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: University of Virginia Cancer Center
- City: Charlottesville, VA, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://uvahealth.com/services/cancer

## Sources

- UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://uvahealth.com/services/cancer

## Connected records

- cancers: [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/)
- fronts: [Immunotherapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/immunotherapy/)
- technologies: [Focused ultrasound & histotripsy](https://onco.cc/technologies/hifu-histotripsy/), [Focused-ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening](https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/), [Histotripsy as an immune primer](https://onco.cc/technologies/histotripsy-immune-priming/), [Off-the-shelf cancer vaccines](https://onco.cc/technologies/shared-antigen-vaccine/)
- companies: [Insightec](https://onco.cc/companies/insightec/)
- people: [Thomas P. Loughran Jr.](https://onco.cc/people/thomas-loughran/)
- bottlenecks: [No one can predict who responds to immunotherapy](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-immunotherapy-response/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)
- collections: [NCI-Designated Cancer Centers](https://onco.cc/collections/nci-cancer-centers/)

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