Ground breaking cancer research

Cancer research has always been at the heart of our work, and we have been supporting scientists at the University of York since our earliest days. In fact, our first project was funded in 1988, just a year after we first began.

We now support the Jack Birch Unit based within the Biology department at the university by part-funding the Director’s salary and paying for laboratory support as part of a five-year renewable programme.

We have also been able to support the purchase of some very specialised pieces of equipment for the laboratory and supported the full costs of several specific research projects including a two-year research project on bladder cancer as well as contributing £100,000 towards prostate cancer research by Professor Norman Maitland.

We have also funded research conducted by specialists at York Hospital, such as work by Dr James Turvill, a consultant gastroenterologist, into a possible test to identify people at risk from developing bowel cancer.