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Our Research

World leading discovery, translation, and clinical advances.

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We work right across the cancer research pathway with strengths ranging from cell biology and clinical trials to healthcare research and cancer research training.

Our goal is to develop our teams to undertake world-leading discovery research, and to translate that research into the next wave of clinical advances.

Discovery & developmental bioscience

Fundamental discoveries that will improve future cancer treatments.

Drug discovery & pre-clinical development

Innovating to deliver new cancer medicines.

Personalised medicine, genomics & informatics

Using multi-dimensional data to improve treatments and outcomes for cancer patients.

Early phase trials

Innovating new, better, and kinder cancer treatments.

Late phase trials

National and international late phase cancer research clinical trials.

Toxicity & survivorship

Reducing the burden of cancer for patients and their families.

Prevention & screening

Saving lives by preventing cancer and finding it early.

Global and outreach

Exploring how we can work with the developing world.

Paediatric oncology & haematology

We aim to provide the best possible treatment for every child with cancer.

Urological cancer

Defining biological mechanisms in urological cancers to improve patient outcomes.

Liver cancer

Fighting liver cancer on multiple fronts.

Colorectal cancer

We aim to stop people dying through research into screening, prevention and early diagnosis.

Sarcoma Research Group

Collaborating effectively to deliver advances in sarcoma surgery and therapeutics.

Latest news and events

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Children with the most common brain cancer could see diagnostic wait times reduced, thanks to new research that trialled a new, quicker and less invasive way of determining tumour type
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The paediatric neuro-oncology collaboration between Newcastle University and Hospitals' has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.
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New research reveals key reasons behind low cancer survival rates in rural Yorkshire
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