It is essential that we provide the right environment to stimulate world-class research. Cancer Research UK currently supports over 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses throughout the UK through a variety of funding mechanisms. We fund research carried out in our own research institutes, as well as awarding grants to researchers based in universities and hospitals. We are also in the process of establishing Cancer Research UK Centres across the country.
We need to think more broadly about cancer research to embrace the wider technologies that can enable and support progress in cancer research, for example biophysics and mathematics. Our Centres will encourage more cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary working from the research community and the proposed UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) provides an ideal opportunity to make this approach an integral part of one of our key Institutes.
