Licensing and partnering opportunities

These are some highlighted research projects ready now for partnering or licensing here at The Institute of Cancer Research – although there are opportunities to collaborate with our scientists across the full range of our research.

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Opportunity: Antibody-derived small molecules and ‘macrodrug’ degraders

Commissioner: Professor Terence Rabbitts

Opportunity: A small molecule drug conjugate as a novel prodrug-activating platform

Commissioner: Professor Udai Banerji

Opportunity: AI-based multiplex image analysis of pathology slides (SANDI)

Commissioner: Professor Yinyin Yuan

Opportunity: Image/AI-driven cancer biomarker to measure immune environment

Commissioner: Professor Yinyin Yuan, Dr Khalid Abdul Jabbar

Opportunity: Predictive test for personalising breast cancer treatment

Commissioner: Professor Mitch Dowsett

Opportunity: Novel method for sequencing the T-cell receptor from degraded RNA

Commissioner: Dr Annie Baker

Opportunity: A potent, orally bioavailable clinical-stage inhibitor of MPS1 with potential as a treatment for a range of cancer types including triple negative breast cancer

Commissioner: Swen Hoelder

Opportunity: Novel non-invasive imaging tool for measuring tumour stiffness

Commissioner: Dr Emma Harris

Opportunity: Cancer biomarker for predicting response to drugs targeting mitotic checkpoint kinases and cell division

Commissioner: Professor Andrew Tutt, Professor Chris Lord, Professor Jonathon Pines

Opportunity: Discovering and developing small molecule inhibitors of ERAP1

Commissioner: Dr Esther Arwert

Opportunity: A novel test for predicting future cancer risk in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Commissioner: Professor Trevor Graham

Opportunity: Targeting ART1 to overcome immune resistance in lung cancer treatment

Commissioner: Dr Erik Wennerberg

Opportunity: A deep-learning method to improve the analysis of MRI in clinical imaging

Commissioner: Dr Matthew Blackledge

Opportunity: Molecular subtyping and predictive test for personalising colorectal cancer

Commissioner: Professor Anguraj Sadanandam

Opportunity: Predictive test for personalising treatment of advanced sarcoma

Commissioner: Professor Paul Huang, Dr Maggie Cheang, Professor Robin Jones

Opportunity: Cancer vaccines or immunotherapy to tackle drug resistance

Commissioner: Dr Stephen Pettitt