What are 'Specialized Programs of Research Excellence' or 'SPORE'?

What are 'Specialized Programs of Research Excellence' or 'SPORE'?

The SPORE Program called the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence are designations made by the National Cancer Institute, and along with that designation comes a large grant that supports research endeavors into lung cancer. Currently, there are 7 sites in the country for lung cancer. UCLA is one of those sites, and all of these programs push innovations and promising differences that set standards of care ideally and bring about promising from the laboratory directly to the patient that impacts on prevention, detection and treatment for lung cancer.