About us

Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research opened in June 1998 is located on Shiraz Medical School main campus at Zand Avenue. The Institute is the nation’s first comprehensive center in which both immunological and biological aspects of cancer are under investigation.

Started with a BioBank in 1998, the institute is currently developed into six research groups/labs as well as two affiliated clinics on breast cancer and prostate cancer. More than a dozen scientists are now housed in the Institute or are in collaboration with the Institute to perform both basic and clinical investigations on different aspects of cancer.

Immunology and molecular genetics of cancer, biomarker discovery, gene therapy, stem cell research and antibody production are the focus of the research groups at the institute. The institute aimed not only to participate in the global attempt to resolve basic aspects of cancer, but also to translate current knowledge of basic immunology into clinic to improve patients own immune system for eradication of cancer cells.

The focus of  cancer clinics  is currently on two of the most important malignancies among women and men in Iran; breast and prostate cancer.

Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research (ICR)
Medical School
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz-Iran
P.O. Box: 71345-3119
Tel: +98(0)711 2303687

Fax: +98(0)711 2304952

Email: icr@sums.ac.ir