Author: Joanna Lewin

Our scientists across the country are working hard to tackle drug resistance – one of cancer’s cruellest curveballs.

This International Women’s Day, meet the women combining research and clinical expertise with business acumen and personal experience to help…

The role of the nervous system in cancer progression remains largely unexplored. Now, our researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre are leaning into the unknown to find out how cancer uses nerve cells and networks to survive and grow.

Jill May and David Dangoor CBE tell us why they’ve devoted time, effort and millions of pounds to back our vital research.  

We speak with the industrialist, investor and Cancer Research UK supporter about his substantial donation to support our early career researchers… and why he changed his mind about cancer research.

How our partnership with Children with Cancer UK is helping to transform our understanding of children’s and young people’s cancers.

As chair of our philanthropic giving circle the Catalyst Club, businessman Simon Collins is helping to unlock transformational funding to support our life-saving research. Meet Simon and learn more about the Catalyst Club, which turns 10 this year.

The businessman, philanthropist and long-standing Cancer Research UK supporter tells us about his family’s latest £1.2m donation.

The director of our Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre walks us through some of his proudest research achievements and how supporters have made them possible.

We asked two of our protein specialists, who are trying to understand how the way proteins fold affect cancer outcomes, to give their verdict on the news.