Reducing the global cancer burden and innovating to extend lives
We're delivering impact across the whole cancer pathway. From genomic discovery to world leading treatments, our expertise and facilities span the entire bench to bedside journey.
We’re world leaders in cancer prevention and earlier detection. Supported by one of two high-energy proton beam centres in the UK, we’re aiding the radiotherapy treatment of tens of thousands of patients each year. Our experts are also working across cancer genomics, biomarkers, and experimental and precision medicine. Working with our partners across the world, we’re also helping to reduce inequalities across the entire cancer pathway and develop solutions to ensure more people can access precision medicine regardless of where they live.
We’re making an impact at home with innovative pilots like the mobile lung health check, giving the local, and now national population increased access to diagnostic tools designed to detect cancer when it’s at its most treatable. Across the UK our experts work closely with policymakers to implement crucial policy changes in cancer screening and treatment standards. Further afield, we’re increasing our knowledge through global partnerships. Together we’re improving access to prevention, detection and treatment strategies in low- and middle-income countries, along with for cancers of non-European descent.
This is supported by our unique Manchester Cancer Research Centre partnership, joining forces with Cancer Research UK and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to deliver real change for people affected by the disease. Together, we aim to create a future free from the burden of cancer.
Our research covers
- Transforming outcomes for cancer patients with new prevention and detection strategies.
- Focusing research on developing innovative technologies to aide earlier detection.
- Understanding underlying risk factors for cancers, from inherited conditions such as Lynch or Li-Fraumeni Syndrome to obesity.
- Pioneering targeted radiotherapy treatments through our access to world-leading MR-Linac and proton beam therapy facilities.
- Delivering precision treatments across the different stages of a cancer's progression.
- Developing experimental therapies through early phase clinical trials to offer patients access to the newest treatments.
- Addressing the socio, cultural and environmental variables that affect cancer progressions and survival.
- Helping to identify and remedy inequalities across the cancer pathway.
- Developing cancer detection and treatment strategies that are specific to different communities across the world.
- Ensuring inequalities across the cancer pathways are identified and remedied.
- Help people, regardless of background or circumstance, to access high quality cancer care.
Key centres and institutes
One in Two: a cancer research podcast
Created in partnership with the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, we feature cancer researchers, patients and discuss the innovations and discoveries that are changing the landscape of early detection.
Events
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The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump Prime Call Launch Event
14 January 2025, 2.30pm-4pm
The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) will be launching the latest round of pump-priming awards in January 2025. The call aims to encourage collaboration and provi.. -
Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation
18 - 19 February 2025,
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation pro..
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