A centre built
for cancer trials,
end to end
Formed in 2007 on the world‑renowned Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the Cambridge Cancer Trials Centre brings four partner institutions under one roof — so a laboratory discovery can travel all the way to a treatment offered to patients, without ever leaving Cambridge.
A discovery at the lab bench should reach the patients who need it — without ever leaving Cambridge.
Most trials are handed between separate organisations as they mature — losing time, context and momentum at every boundary. We were built to remove those boundaries: discovery, design, delivery and care all live on one campus, in one centre.
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01 · Discover
Laboratory science
University and CRUK institutes turn fundamental cancer biology into ideas worth testing in people.
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02 · Design
Protocol & data
The Cancer Theme writes the protocol, sets the statistics and builds the database the trial will run on.
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03 · Deliver
Trials open
Studies open to recruitment at Addenbrooke's and across UK sites, monitored to good clinical practice.
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04 · Care
Patients first
Clinical Operations sees each participant through every visit — kind, safe and excellent, the CUH values.
The four institutions that make
Cambridge a place trials are built.
Each partner brings a different strength. Together — under one roof on the Biomedical Campus — they cover the whole life of a trial. We are part of Cambridge University Hospitals.
ScienceDepartment of Oncology
At the forefront of translating basic science into the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer — the source of the ideas our trials put to the test.
CareAddenbrooke's & the Rosie
A teaching, research and designated academic health science centre — and the hospital we are part of, where participants are seen and cared for.
CommunityOne research community
Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Centre unites scientists, clinicians, research institutes and industry as a single community working towards better outcomes.
DeliveryCancer Theme
A fully registered clinical trials unit hosted within the Cambridge BRC. Our Cancer Theme — its largest — designs, runs and coordinates studies across the UK.
A short walk from the lab
to the clinic.
Everything sits side by side on one of the largest centres of medical and biomedical research in the world — Addenbrooke's, the University's research institutes, and the CRUK Cambridge Institute. Proximity is the point: it is what lets a study move from idea to patient at a pace few places can match.
One centre, so the journey from discovery to patient never has to leave Cambridge.
Est. 2007 · Cambridge Biomedical Campus