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Partnerships with The Royal Marsden

The ICR works with our hospital partner The Royal Marsden across several centres to take the results of our research rapidly into the clinic, with the aim of developing better treatments for cancer patients.

A nurse and patient at the Royal Marsden Hospital

Biomedical Research Centre

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at The Royal Marsden and the ICR is the only BRC to specifically focus on cancer. Its aim is to drive pioneering, translational and clinical research.

Biomedical Research Centre

Centre for Genome Stability

The Centre for Genome Stability is a unique multidisciplinary programme bringing together experts from across the ICR and The Royal Marsden who work on DNA-damage response and genome instability research with clinical experts in the treatment of cancer.

Centre for Genome Stability

Centre for Global Oncology

Our aim is to promote cancer research, training, fundraising and infrastructure building in low and middle income countries.

Centre for Global Oncology

Centre for Molecular Pathology

This centre is a collaborative initiative between The Royal Marsden the ICR that aims to identify the molecular mechanisms that drive cancers and to target them with a new generation of treatments.

Molecular Pathology Centre

Centre for Immunotherapy of Cancer

This virtual centre aims to increase communication between clinicians and scientists with an interest in translational immunotherapy. It brings together staff and students from the ICR and our partner hospital, The Royal Marsden.

Centre for Immunotherapy of Cancer

Drug Development Unit

The Drug Development Unit was opened in February 2005 as a joint unit of the ICR and The Royal Marsden. In 2011, at the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Network quinquennial review, the unit was given a rating of ‘outstanding’ for past work and future plans.

Drug Development Unit

Joint Department of Physics

The Joint Department of Physics conducts and translates research and development of medical physics into clinical practice. It is a collaboration of academic and clinical staff from the ICR and The Royal Marsden.

Joint Department of Physics

Joint Integrated Pathology Unit

Our pioneering research into diagnostics combines the power of digital pathology and artificial intelligence.

Joint Integrated Pathology Unit

Joint Sarcoma Research Centre

Our virtual research centre, a collaboration between The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, has been driving pioneering research for innovative treatments for sarcomas since our launch in January 2019.

Joint Sarcoma Research Centre

Paediatric Oncology Experimental Medicine

Our Centre's goal is to develop novel treatments and diagnostic tests, and deliver changes in clinical practice, for children with cancer. We aim to do this through innovative clinical trials that are driven by our scientific understanding of children’s cancer mechanism.

Paediatric Oncology Experimental Medicine

Radiation Research Centre of Excellence

The Centre brings together world-leading experts in radiotherapy, immunotherapy, cancer biology and targeted drug treatment to collaborate on new forms of combination treatment.

Radiation Research Centre of Excellence