We have been involved in the development of a large clinical and basic cancer research complex within Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast City Hospital. This has resulted in the creation of an ongoing cancer research programme that allows both clinicians and scientists to work together in order to seek new ways to diagnose, treat or prevent cancer.
This programme is based in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Belfast City Hospital and includes several basic science research teams and one clinical trials research unit. New ideas coming from this basic research programme are introduced into the clinical research programme and facilitate the exploration of new treatments and place clinical trials at the core of the cancer treatment programme.
Members of the Ulster Cancer Foundation cancer research team include the Ulster Cancer Foundation Professor of Oncology, an Ulster Cancer Foundation Consultant Oncologist, a senior science lecturer, a number of post-doctoral fellows, students and an experimental officer.
UCF’s major current research programme at Queen’s University Belfast is entitled ‘Determinants of Response to the Epidermal Growth factor Target Antibody therapies in Colorectal Cancer’.
