Today, World Cancer Day 2019, marks one year since we announced that we’d reached our £25 million fundraising target for the Centre for Cancer Immunology. We were six months ahead of schedule and to make the announcement on World Cancer Day 2018 was particularly special.
Today we are reflecting on the wonderful support from you, our staff and student community, that helped us reach our goal. Thanks to our generous supporters, we’ve now fully opened the new Centre where teams are working to progress their research to find a cure for cancer. But our efforts on behalf of the Centre haven’t stopped as we continue seek further backing for our skilled researchers through the Cancer Immunology Talent Fund.
The Talent Fund has three main aims:
- to launch the UK’s first integrated PhD in cancer immunology
- to attract world-class talent to advance our research
- and to develop a new interdisciplinary innovation residency programme.
A great example of the new researchers we’re attracting to Southampton are Professors Sally Ward and Raimund Ober, leaders in the field of antibody-based therapeutics who joined the Centre from Texas A&M University last August.
“Southampton has a remarkable reputation for taking basic scientific discoveries from the lab through to clinical practice and it is very exciting to be a part of that.” said Raimund.
“We’ve interacted with Southampton researchers in the past and the opportunity to come to the first Centre in the UK to be dedicated to cancer immunology research was too good to miss.” added Sally.
You can find out more about the Cancer Immunology Talent Fund here.
