On Mar. 5, 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that it had awarded the Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a prestigious Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in endometrial cancer.

The goal of three-year, $1.7 million grant was to implement a strong collaboration between basic scientists and clinicians. In 2009, about 42,000 women were diagnosed with the disease and almost 8,000 women with endometrial cancer died.