在几个布朗学院的实验室中进行了促成癌症发病机理的机制培训，涉及多种癌症类型和模型的研究。研究通常包括补充性分子生物学体外研究以及啮齿动物遗传或致癌模型。因为已知特定的环境暴露或传染因素会导致特定的癌症类型，所以在“癌症生物学”下列出的教师与在“环境病理学/毒理学”主题领域工作的教师与在“感染与免疫”领域工作的教师之间存在重叠。癌症研究培训得益于布朗社区可利用的杰出核心设施，包括RIH COBRE分子病理学和蛋白质组学癌症研究发展中心（CCRD），布朗遗传与基因组学中心，转基因和微阵列中的COBRE设施以及
Training in mechanisms that contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer takes place in several Brown faculty laboratories and involves studies of multiple cancer types and models. Studies often include complementary molecular biology in vitro studies together with rodent genetic or carcinogen models. Because particular environmental exposures or infectious agents are known to contribute to specific cancer types, there is overlap between faculty listed under Cancer Biology with those working in thematic areas of Environmental Pathology/Toxicology and also with faculty working in Infection & Immunity. Cancer Research training is aided by availability of outstanding core facilities available to the Brown community including the RIH COBRE Center for Cancer Research Development (CCRD) in Molecular Pathology and Proteomics, the Brown Center for Genetics and Genomics, COBRE facilities in Transgenics and Microarray and other state of the art instrumentation and expertise.