The Institute of Cancer Research is a public research institute and a member institution of the University of London in London, United Kingdom, specialising in oncology. It was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital and joined the University of London in 2003. It has been responsible for a number of breakthrough discoveries, including that the basic cause of cancer is damage to DNA.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Inception
- 1909
- Website
- http://www.icr.ac.uk/, http://www.icr.ac.uk/