Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida will launch an early-phase cancer clinical trial site in partnership with San Antonio-based START Center for Cancer Research.
The site will operate in collaboration with Baptist Health’s Herbert Wertheim Cancer Institute, which was recently renamed after receiving a $100 million philanthropic gift.
“Partnering with START gives patients and physicians access to first-in-class oncology trials that would otherwise require traveling hundreds of miles. For a community as large and diverse as ours, that matters enormously,” Leonard Kalman, MD, acting system chief executive of Baptist Health Cancer Care and acting executive medical director of Baptist Health Herbert Wertheim Cancer Institute, said in a May 27 news release from START.
START opened a $5.7 million early-phase clinical trial facility with New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health in December, with a second center slated to open in 2027.
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