Welcome to the W. M. Keck Center for Innovative Cancer Therapies website. Gene therapy is the transfer of normal or redesigned genes into a patient to reduce or alleviate a disease state. Certain potentially cancerous genes are dormant in all of us and are sometimes triggered into activity. Other genes, tumor-suppressor genes, act naturally to stop unregulated growth of cancer cells. Please browse this site to learn more about the Keck Center.

The innovative cancer therapies program at M. D. Anderson has assembled over 60 scientists and clinicians with an interest in sharing research ideas and findings worldwide. We all share the common goal of curing cancer.