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A key aim of the Department of Oncology is the optimal translation of fundamental research into patient benefit and for Oxford to become the leading centre for translational early-phase oncology trials in the UK.
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Welcome to the The Department of Oncology. The Department of Oncology's mission is to improve cancer care through research and teaching. There is strong emphasis on translation, with established infrastructure to develop scientific insights toward clinical appreciation.
The Department houses over 400 staff and postgraduate students - both clinical and non-clinical - and is one of the largest departments in the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division. It is also home to the Institute for Radiation Oncology.
One of the key aims for the Department is to bring together basic scientific and clinical research groups from across Oxford - based in the Old Road Campus Research Building, the Radiobiology Research Institute, the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and the NHS Cancer and Haematology Centre - to apply knowledge of cancer and to develop research so that we may better understand how we can combat cancer in the most effective way possible.
MRC OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY
The mission of the MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology is to explore aspects of radiation biology research that could yield new advances in the treatment of cancer.
DIVISION OF CANCER MEDICINE
The aims of the Division of Cancer Medicine are to understand cancer and the biological processes that govern how it starts, how it behaves and how the body responds to it.
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MP Anneliese Dodds tours Oxford cancer research
26 November 2021
Anneliese Dodds, MP for Oxford East & Chair of the Labour Party, visited the University of Oxford to learn more about the impactful work happening across departments in the field of cancer research.