News
Generally, the ICR Global Foundation prefers to share news related to the researchers we support. One exception is this June 6, 2009 feature story on the Foundation and the Institute of Cancer Research written as part of a series on philanthropy by the Financial Times’ how to spend it magazine. Download the FT article.
Recent press releases from the Institute of Cancer Research
- 10.31.2010 Scientists Find Non-viral Pathway of Blood Cancer Development
- 10.20.2010 Four in 10 Men with Prostate Cancer May Avoid Radical Treatment
- 10.18.2010 Scientists Report First Step Towards Genetic Test to Predict Early Menopause
- 10.13.2010 Urine Protein Could Pave the Way for New Prostate Cancer Test
- 10.11.2010 ICR-Discovered Drug Improved Prostate Cancer Patient Survival
- 10.01.2010 Trial Helps Bring New Prostate Cancer Drug to Market
- 08.30.2010 Research Opens Door to New Drugs That Will Counter Tamoxifen Resistance
- 08.27.2010 ICR and Horizon Discovery to Collaborate on Genome-wide Synthetic-lethality Screens
- 07.30.2010 Herpes Virus Treats Head and Neck Cancer Patients
- 07.23.2010 ICR Chief Executive to Become Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust
- 07.20.2010 Therapy Reduces Dangerous Side-effects
- 06.25.2010 Breast Cancer Drugs May Treat Prostate Cancer
- 06.22.2010 Cancer Centres Launch Academic Partnership
- 06.13.2010 Three New Testicular Cancer Risk Variants
- 06.09.2010 Mutation Confirmed as Melanoma Drug Target
- 06.09.2010 Testicular Cancer Chemo Risk Examined
- 06.04.2010 Cancer Drug Researcher Receives Royal Society of Chemistry Award
- 06.01.2010 Genetic Mutation Shown to Trigger Melanoma
- 05.21.2010 ICR’s Chief Executive Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 05.21.2010 Planning the Future of Personalised Medicine
- 05.18.2010 Human Virus Helps to Treat Cancer Patients
- 05.17.2010 Genetics of Children’s Brain Tumour Unlocked
- 05.17.2010 Brain Tumour and Mobile Phone Study Reports
- 05.12.2010 The IARC Medal of Honour Award 2010
- 05.12.2010 ICR Hosts Meeting of Top Network Biologists
- 05.09.2010 Scientists Find Areas of Genome that Increase Breast Cancer Risk
- 05.04.2010 Two Eminent Geneticists Elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
- 04.29.2010 £5.8 Million Grant Awarded to Investigate Intelligent Cancer Imaging
- 04.19.2010 Drug Benefits Patients with Inherited Ovarian Cancer
- 04.07.2010 Grant Worth £4 Million Awarded to Develop New Cancer Drug
- 04.02.2010 Gene Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Childhood Cancer
- 03.31.2010 Younger Women Choose Breast Screens
- 03.29.2010 Potential to Reduce Children’s Side-effects from Cancer Treatment
- 03.17.2010 First Patient Treated in Phase II Trial of Anticancer Hsp90 Inhibitor
- 03.16.2010 ICR to Collaborate on Cancer Drug Development Programme
- 03.15.2010 Exploiting Cancer’s ‘Double Agent’ Could Lead To New Treatments For Bowel Cancer
- 02.23.2010 Methods for Classifying Patients Produce Inaccurate and Inconsistent Results
- 02.23.2010 Scientists Unlock Key to Tamoxifen Resistance
- 02.16.2010 New Drug Benefits Late-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients
- 02.08.2010 Radiotherapy Regimen Safe for Breast Patients
- 02.03.2010 ICR Receives Environmental Honour
- 01.27.2010 Genetic Abnormalities Predict Prostate Cancer Survival
- 01.26.2010 ICR Selects World's Fastest Supercomputer
- 01.21.2010 Discovery Could Help Refine Advanced Melanoma Treatment
- 01.20.2010 Molecules Increase the Effectiveness of Certain Therapies
- 01.10.2010 Genetic Factors Can Increase Leukaemia Risk 7-Fold
- 01.08.2010 DNA Helps Identify Genes that Drive Cancer
- 01.07.2010 Clinical Candidate Selected by AstraZeneca