<p>I’m not a cancer person (other biomedical research interests) but from the people I know who do cancer - Stanford is the top dog (or a top dog) in cancer grad programs. But beware - it’s unbelievably competitive - hundreds apply, maybe 30ish interview (all highly qualified to get to this point), 10-12ish get offers (depends on the year) and they expect almost everyone they give an offer to accept as they are that desirable (they don’t give more offers than spots like many schools do as too many people would say yes). Your list looks good but of course you are going to need a very high GPA, good GREs, excellent recs, etc. etc. to get into those places. Your research looks good. Personally, I would add a few more schools to your list to be safe: try looking at the others on USNWR (not that is the be all and end all of biomed rankings, but a good starting point). Perhaps UW, WUSTL, Penn, UCSD- and others (depending on your preferences for location). And maybe Berkeley - but I see you have a clinical interest and Berkeley has no med school and tends to be more ‘basic’ science focused compared to places like SK or UCSF that are good med schools. Maybe Rockefeller? Check out the schools associated with HHMI’s med into grad program (<a href=“http://www.hhmi.org/news/medintogradsum20091117.html[/url]”>http://www.hhmi.org/news/medintogradsum20091117.html</a>)</p>