How to choose programs to apply to based on research fit?

[installation2020]

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Hi! I am so (over)-excited (and immensely nervous) to apply this upcoming cycle...

I am having trouble, however, trying to choose which schools to apply to when looking at research opportunities. My interest is in cancer biology, specifically metastasis/tumor microenvironment/immunology involved with those two topics...is there an efficient way of looking through schools to see what may be a fit? I have just been searching through each school's researchers on their departmental sites, but that is taking a lot of time for not so much reward. How should we be going about looking through research prospects?

 

[Fencer]

Just place "tumor microenvironment" and city or institution in NIH Reporter quick search tool: RePORT 〉 RePORTER
That is pretty quick and easy. City might be better because you might not realize that a school investigator has funding at the affiliated VA or local research institute.