Hampton University Brings the Latest and Greatest in Cancer Treatment: Despite having no medical school, Hampton University is one of the leading research institutions on cancer treatment.
With a top-rated medical physics program and a faculty team that has nine patents on a breast cancer detection device, university president William R. Harvey says it’s time to make an even bigger investment into fighting cancer.
Thanks to Harvey’s desire to make cancer research one of the university’s top priorities, Hampton is set to unveil its own proton treatment center. The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI) will be the largest, first free-standing, and, according to university officials, the most state-of-the-art cancer treatment center in the nation. It will only be the seventh proton institute in the nation, and the first to be built at a historically Black college or university.
The project’s costs could exceed $200 million, but Harvey says the institute’s value in fighting cancer cannot be measured in numbers.
