# Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

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## TL;DR

Roswell Park is America's first cancer centre (1898), with strengths in immunotherapy and cell therapy manufacturing.

## Summary

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo is America's first cancer centre, founded in 1898, and holds NCI comprehensive designation; its strengths are immunotherapy and cell therapy manufacturing. It runs GMP cell manufacturing, developed the SurVaxM glioblastoma vaccine, and is the origin of photodynamic therapy through Dougherty, with Candace S. Johnson, Renier J. Brentjens, Igor Puzanov, Eunice S. Wang, Pawel Kalinski and Robert A. Fenstermaker and Kara M. Kelly among the people OnCo lists, and Gilda Radner also linked. OnCo connects it to photoimmunotherapy and photodynamic therapy and to Generate:Biomedicines. Whether academic GMP capacity can lower the cost of cell therapies is the question its manufacturing programme tests. Its cell therapy and photodynamic programmes are listed below.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-04
- City: Buffalo, NY, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://www.roswellpark.org

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_Park_Comprehensive_Cancer_Center
- Official website: https://www.roswellpark.org

## Connected records

- technologies: [Photoimmunotherapy & photodynamic therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/photoimmunotherapy/)
- people: [Candace S. Johnson](https://onco.cc/people/candace-johnson/), [Eunice S. Wang](https://onco.cc/people/eunice-wang/), [Gilda Radner](https://onco.cc/people/gilda-radner/), [Igor Puzanov](https://onco.cc/people/igor-puzanov/), [Kara M. Kelly](https://onco.cc/people/kara-kelly/), [Pawel Kalinski](https://onco.cc/people/pawel-kalinski/), [Renier J. Brentjens](https://onco.cc/people/renier-brentjens/), [Robert A. Fenstermaker](https://onco.cc/people/robert-fenstermaker/)
- companies: [Generate:Biomedicines](https://onco.cc/companies/generate-biomedicines/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)

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