The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University is an in Baltimore, MD. It was established in 1973 and received its NCI designation that same year as one of the first designated cancer centers in the country. SKCCC is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of 27 comprehensive cancer centers in the US. The current director of SKCCC is William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., who has been at JHU since 1992 and specializes in prostate cancer. Past directors have included Albert H. Owens Jr. and .