Host Institutes
The Centre at Cambridge
The contributing laboratories at Cambridge are drawn from the University Departments of Pathology, Oncology and Surgery, the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, the MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, and the Gurdon CR-UK Wellcome Trust Institute. Most are in close proximity on the Addenbrooke's Hospital campus, where also the new CR-UK Cambridge Research Institute will open later this year. The Programme is thus set within one of the largest hospital-based cancer research centres in Europe. Collectively, the host laboratories aim to bring the scientific resources of Cambridge to bear on the practical problems of cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
The Centre at Barts & The London
The Institute of Cancer and the Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre brings together over 200 researchers and clinical scientists taking a molecular approach to the problem of cancer, from fundamental molecular analysis of individual genes, through biomarker development and clinical trials of novel therapeutics, to population-based interventional epidemiology studies. Molecular pathology is a particularly strong theme of many of the specific programmes and is underpinned by the establishment of extensive infrastructure and common resource, together with the involvement of senior academics well versed in this technology.