Cancer Research Institute at the University of Cambridge
MRC Cancer Unit
Abbreviation
MRC CU
Formation
2001
Type
Research institute
Legal status
University Unit
Purpose
Cancer research in the UK
Headquarters
Hutchison/MRC Research Centre
Location
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ
Region served
UK
Director (interim)
Rebecca Fitzgerald
Parent organization
University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council
Staff
c. 100 cancer research scientists and support staff
Website
MRC Cancer Unit
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The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit was located in Cambridge and was established in 2001. It was based within the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, which in turn is situated on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Campus. The MRCCancerUnit was established in 2001 (as the MRCCancer Cell Unit) by Professor Ron Laskey CBE, who was also appointed as the unit's first director...
developed a distinctive scientific mission for the MRCCancerUnit focused on early intervention in cancer, through research that advances understanding of...
Hutchison/MRC Research Centre is a cancer research centre housing researchers from the University of Cambridge Department of Oncology, the MRCCancer Cell Unit...
Council (UK) Human Genetics Unit is situated at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. It is one of the largest MRC research establishments, housing...
(MRC), to start the Oxford unit for Cancer epidemiology in 1968. With the use of computers, the unit was the first to compile large amounts of cancer data...
diseases, cancer biology, stem cells and developmental biology. The institute houses the MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and MRC WIMM...
controlled trial run by the Clinical Trial Service Unit, and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in the United...
coordinated by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Medical Research Council (MRC), the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) or the...
with descriptors associated with the number (The Modified Borg Scale). The MRC breathlessness scale suggests five grades of dyspnea based on the circumstances...
director of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in 1997 and leader of the "Diet and Cancer" group. In 2006, she became director of the new MRC Centre for Nutritional...
an initiative directed by Ian Wilmut. From 2008 to 2020, the centre had MRC status. Charles ffrench-Constant became the 2nd Director of CRM in 2010;...
of the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit following the resignation of Professor Roger Whitehead. The Medical Research Council (MRC), founded in 1913, had previously...
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in...
Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre Usher Institute of Population...
Council (MRC) at University College Hospital (UCL), where he worked on radioactive iodine. He later became involved in establishing the Beatson Cancer Centre...
rates of lung cancer had soared. To further investigate the link, the Medical Research Council (MRC) instructed its Statistical Research Unit (later the...
Molecular Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. In 2013 Barford was appointed as a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...
of chronic disease. In 2013, Sharples left the MRC to join the University of Leeds Clinical Trials Unit as a professor of statistics, where she oversaw...
March 2019. "Usha Menon, Professor of Gynaecological Oncology". MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Retrieved 28 March 2019. "Usha Menon". UCL. Retrieved 28 March...
to sit the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination. On award of the MRCS by one of the four surgical colleges, surgeons may hold...
apparent. During Watt’s tenure as MRC Executive Chair, she oversaw the decision to close the Mammalian Genetics Unit. This strategic decision was decried...