Front View of Hollings Front View of Hollings at Night Hollings Cancer Center Lobby Hollings Cancer Center Lobby Patient Reception Patient Reception Patient Exam Room Patient Exam Room & Hallway Staff Work Space Patient & Visitor Areas Research Laboratory Research Laboratory Hollings Cancer Center Photo Courtesy of Warren Lieb Click on Photos to Enlarge

The Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) is the focus of cancer care and research activities at MUSC. HCC opened its first 86,000 sq. ft. dedicated facility in 1993 at  Jonathan Lucas and Calhoun Streets.  Since then, patient visits have grown from 15,000 visits per year to more than 80,000 in FY2007. And cancer research extramural funding has tripled to $28 million with two-thirds from the NIH.

To accommodate the expanding clinical activities and provide additional space for the growth of basic and translational research, MUSC built a 7-story tower adjacent to the former HCC building in 2005. As part of the expansion project, the first two floors of the original building were remodeled. This brings the total HCC facility to 202,139 gross sq. ft.

HCC Facility Features

Patient Care Areas:
- 49 exam and consult rooms
- 35-chair Day Treatment and  
  Chemotherapy Suite including 6 
  private rooms
- Breast imaging suite
- Outpatient pharmacy
- Radiation oncology treatment suite

Research Areas:
- 24 new configurable lab modules
  with three benches each in
  addition to original labs
- Shared equipment rooms (cold 
   rooms, warm room, molecular 
   imaging core, drug discovery 
   core, drug metabolism and clinical
   pharmacology core, etc.)
- Animal Facility with new Small 
  Animal Imaging Suite
- Clinical Trials Office

Administrative and Educational Areas:
- 58 administrative and faculty 
  offices
- 6 conference rooms
- Large conference center
- Café
- Healing Garden
- Chapel
- Patient Resource Center
- The Looking Glass, our elegant patient boutique

In addition to the Hollings Cancer Center facility, cancer clinicians and investigators utilize substantial facilities for interdisciplinary research, training and patient care across the campus and at the adjacent Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. 

 More information on the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center

Three new buildings with significant dedicated cancer research laboratories are being designed now, a Drug Discovery Building, a Lifesciences/Bioengeneering Building, and a Urologic Cancer Facility.

Drug Discovery Building Click on Photo to Enlarge

The Drug Discovery Building (DDB): The 114,000-square-foot DDB will be comprised of state-of-the-art laboratory and biotech start-up space.  The first floor will house the NMR Core, the Pharmacy Teaching laboratories and an auditorium. The second floor will include Structural Biology laboratories and space for biotech start-up companies.  Levels three and four will house 62,000 square feet of cancer research laboratories (32,000 for drug discovery; and 30,000 for bioengineering).  This will include member labs for  Developmental Cancer Therapeutics and the Drug Discovery/Screening Shared Resource, and Drug Metabolism and Clinical Pharmacology Shared Resource. Level five will be home to Advanced Cellular Technologies and Organ Failure Research laboratories. The sixth floor will hold the Small Animal Imaging Shared Resource and the animal facility. The DDB is scheduled to be completed in 2010.

The BioEngineering/Life Sciences Building:This 90,000-square-foot facility is an outgrowth of our long-standing and growing statewide program in Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine. This facility will house engineering students and faculty from USC and Clemson, working and learning with our life and health science students and faculty. The building will also house new recruits for the HCC in areas of cancer genetics ans stem cell biology (30,000 s.f.) The facility will lay the groundwork for a systems- or integrative biology program at MUSC. This facility will be adjacent to the Drug Discovery and Building.

 More information on the Hollings Urologic Cancer Facility