Cambridge scientists are set to receive a major cash injection from Cancer Research UK, which has announced plans to invest over 拢41 million over the next five years at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, one of the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Strategic Research Initiatives. 探花直播funding will help support ground-breaking work as part of the development of a unique chain of research hubs around the UK.
Cambridge scientists are set to receive a major cash injection from Cancer Research UK, which has announced plans to invest over 拢41 million over the next five years at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, one of the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Strategic Research Initiatives. 探花直播funding will help support ground-breaking work as part of the development of a unique chain of research hubs around the UK.
探花直播investment means we will be able to further develop our work in translational research 鈥 getting cutting-edge discoveries from the laboratory to patients and learning as much as possible from patients to initiate new research
Richard Gilbertson
A key part of the funding will involve training the next generation of cancer researchers - including 45 PhD students - to ensure the brightest scientists are attracted to Cambridge.
探花直播award will also fund research nurses and data managers, and help build patient groups, and facilitate tissue sample collection and processing which is essential for life saving research.
Professor Richard Gilbertson, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, said: 鈥淭his funding award is excellent news for the city and for our Centre. It represents a critical investment in the research infrastructure in Cambridge and will equip us with the key laboratory and clinical tools needed to advance the understanding and treatment of cancer.
鈥淭his听is an exciting collaboration of researchers, scientists and clinicians from Cancer Research UK, the 探花直播 of Cambridge and Cambridge 探花直播 Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies across the city. It鈥檚 an alliance that allows us to make use of a wide range of expertise and techniques that can help progress cancer research and bring benefits to patients sooner.
鈥 探花直播investment means we will be able to further develop our work in translational research 鈥 getting cutting-edge discoveries from the laboratory to patients and learning as much as possible from patients to initiate new research.鈥
探花直播Centre brings together leading scientists, doctors and nurses to push forward improvements in early diagnosis and to find and develop better, kinder treatments. In particular, researchers are focusing on breast, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, oesophageal, blood, prostate and children鈥檚 cancers and brain tumours.
Danielle Glavin, Cancer Research UK spokesperson for the East, said: 鈥淭his award is a recognition of the fantastic research that鈥檚 taking place in Cambridge. One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives - so it鈥檚 reassuring to know that, thanks to our supporters, Cancer Research UK is able to fund some of the best and most promising research in Cambridge that will help more people survive.鈥
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