Queen's Anniversary Prize
In November 2017 we were recognised with the highly prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for our pre-eminent work in cancer drug discovery with benefits to patients globally.
We were recognised again with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in November 2023. This time the honour was for transforming lives through world-leading breast cancer research.
The prize, awarded every two years, is presented to universities and colleges judged to be outstanding with respect to excellence, innovation and tangible beneficial effects in the wider world.
Academic excellence
The ICR is also the second-leading academic research centre in the UK. We ranked second in the Times Higher Education league table for performance in the last Research Excellence Framework. We are the leading academic institution in the UK in biological sciences and third in terms of the impact our research makes on wider society.
The ICR is focused on taking our research results to patients as quickly as possible. We work with biotech, pharmaceutical and other companies to develop new treatments for patients, and are amongst the most successful universities in the UK at generating invention income from our discoveries – income which we invest back into our research.