Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Our Institute combines basic and clinical research with innovative technologies to address critical questions in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. We are a department of the University of Cambridge, core funded by Cancer Research UK.

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    Minderoo Precision Brain Tumour Programme tops recruitment milestones

    For patients with glioblastoma, the most aggressive and fatal form of brain cancer – whose survival rates average just 14 months from diagnosis – time is everything, as is the emergence of cutting-edge approaches to treatment. Treatment has failed to progress for three decades, but the Minderoo Precision Brain Tumour Programme is providing patients in […]

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    Academy students pitch scientific solutions to the Institute

    Winning students from CAST pose in the academy after the Dragons Den event.

    On 4 May 2023, students from Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology (CAST) pitched enrichment activities for research mice, which they have designed and built, to a panel of experts from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK Cambridge Institute) and local partners. This “Dragons Den” day marked the culmination of a long-term programme of […]

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    Dr Susanne Bornelöv receives Wellcome Career Development Award

    Dr Susanne Bornelöv from the Hannon Group has been awarded a prestigious £2.3 million Wellcome Career Development grant to lead a novel research programme using computational and genomics methods to explore the regulation of gene expression. Genes contain instructions for making proteins or other molecules that are essential for the growth, development, and normal functioning […]

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    Sigourney Bonner wins charity community award

    Sigourney Bonner, a PhD student in the Gilbertson Group has won The Brain Tumour Charity’s Influencer Award. Sigourney won the Influencer Award at The Brain Tumour Charity’s community awards ceremony, Celebrating You 2023, held on Tuesday 4 April at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. The Brain Tumour Charity are the UK’s leading charity dedicated […]

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