Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research opened in June 1998, is located on Shiraz School of Medicine main campus at Zand Avenue. The Institute is the first nation’s 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.