The Cancer Genome Atlas - TCGA Project Management

TCGA Project Management

TCGA is co-managed by a team composed of scientists and managers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). With the expansion of TCGA from the pilot phase to Phase II in October, 2009, the NCI created a TCGA Program Office. This office, formerly directed by Joe Vockley, Ph.D., is responsible for the operation of six Genome Characterization Centers, seven Genome Analysis Centers, two Biospecimen Core Resource Centers, the Data Coordination Center, and approximately one third of the sequencing done for the project by the three Genome Sequencing Centers. In addition, the TCGA Project Office is responsible for coordinating the accrual of tissues for the TCGA project. Brad Ozenberger, Ph.D., project manager from the NHGRI, directs two thirds of the sequencing at the Genome Sequencing Centers.

The Project is managed by a project team composed of members from the NCI (Anna Barker, Ph.D, Joe Vockley, Ph.D., Kenna Shaw, Ph.D. and Carl Schaffer, Ph.D.) and the NHGRI (Mark Guyer, Ph.D., Brad Ozenberger, Ph.D., Peter Good, Ph.D. and Jane Peterson, Ph.D.). This team, along with a group consisting of all principal investigators funded by the project, makes up the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is tasked with overseeing the scientific validity of the project while the NCI/NHGRI project team ensures that the scientific progress and goals of the project are met, the project is completed on time and on budget and the coordination of the various components of the project.