We are a world-leading cancer research institute dedicated to improving patient lives through discovery science. 

We have built a truly collaborative culture, fostering connections between scientists, healthcare institutions and businesses to take our cancer research from bench to bedside.

Our state-of-the-art facilities and flexible core funding ensures our 300 scientists can deliver bold research programmes to accelerate progress for everyone. 

We are a department of the University of Cambridge, core-funded by Cancer Research UK. 

 

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    Institute scientists to Race for Life

    Scientists from our Carroll Group are urging people to back life-saving research and sign up for Race for Life.     Dr Shalini Rao and her colleagues from Professor Jason Carroll’s lab at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute will swap lab coats for running kits on Sunday June 30, when they join supporters on the start […]

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    Prof Sir Shankar Balasubramanian receives Canada Gairdner Award

    Prof Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Prof Sir David Klenerman have received the 2024 Canada Gairdner Award for their transformative contributions to research impacting human health. Through the prestigious annual Canada Gairdner Awards, the Gairdner Foundation celebrates the world’s most creative and accomplished researchers whose work is improving the health and wellbeing of people around the […]

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    Dr Tim Halim receives £3.3 million Wellcome Discovery Award

    Dr Tim Halim has been awarded £3.3 million through the Wellcome Discovery scheme to explore how immune cells called ‘type-2 lymphocytes’ influence the behaviour of fibroblasts, particularly during health and disease states. The Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for established researchers to pursue bold and creative research ideas and deliver significant shifts in understanding related […]

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    Behind the Lab Coat: Dr Ania Piskorz, Head of Genomics

    Introducing Behind the Lab Coat, a new series by the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute! The series has two main aims: first, to help you to get to get to know the people who are doing amazing science at the Institute and, secondly, to introduce you to the breadth of “behind the scenes” roles required […]

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