“Innovative Infrastructure to Enhance the California Teachers Study (CTS)” will continue the California Teachers Study (CTS) through 2021.

The Health Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Division of SDSC is participating in a multi-million dollar project with City of Hope, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, CA, and other universities and health organizations to create a research cyberinfrastructure that includes a secure, cloud-based data management platform. The CTS consists of 133,479 current and former public school teachers or administrators who were members of the California State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) and agreed in 1995 to have their health and lifestyle tracked to help understand why teachers have historically had higher rates of breast cancer.