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Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital

The hospital that will change the story of cancer forever

15 July 2024

Work will begin soon on a new hospital that will transform how we diagnose and treat cancer. Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will treat patients across the East of England, but the research that takes place there promises to change the lives of cancer patients across the UK and beyond.

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Samuel Pepys and his French fashion print 'Habit Noir'

Samuel Pepys’ fashion prints reveal his guilty pleasure: fancy French clothes

22 Jul 2024

A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The...

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A flying ant

Flying ant season is here!

18 Jul 2024

Whether you find it a bit creepy or see it as an intriguing natural phenomenon, here in the UK it’s flying ant season

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Edinburgh Fringe sign.

Cambridge students head to the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

18 Jul 2024

Learn about the Cambridge student shows set to captivate audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe this August 2024.

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Steve Jackson

Journeys of discovery: Steve Jackson and a life-saving cancer drug

15 Jul 2024

What excites Steve Jackson is understanding how biology works and why it sometimes goes wrong. But what galvanises him is knowing there are people...

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Line drawing of a group of people in a line with arms around each other

Learning from experience: Patients are vital to advances in tackling cancer

15 Jul 2024

Researchers and clinicians are now welcoming new perspectives: those of people with experience of cancer.

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Mother and daughter. The mother is a cancer survivor.

Cancer is the public's biggest health concern, survey finds

15 Jul 2024

Two-thirds of the public say they are very or somewhat worried about being told they have cancer – higher than for any other medical condition –...

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AI versus cancer - the Cambridge researchers using machine intelligence to beat disease

15 Jul 2024

‘Game changing’ technology which can predict how patients will respond to cancer treatment is part of a wave of Cambridge research harnessing AI to...

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Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers

12 Jul 2024

After being donated to the nation by the Hawking Family in 2021, the scientific and personal archive of Professor Stephen Hawking has been fully...

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Adult frog, xenopus laevis

Egging on vital research

11 Jul 2024

Jenny Gallop uses frog egg extract to figure out key cellular processes - which has helped understand and potentially treat two rare genetic diseases...

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Robert Tait McKenzie, Plaster cast of Sprinter (1902) © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Paris 1924 exhibition at The Fitzwilliam: Beyond Chariots of Fire

09 Jul 2024

The 1924 Paris Olympics stars in a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition exploring the sport, art and bodies behind a pivotal Games. Exhibits speak of...

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Blue bubbles

Cambridge scientists elected as Members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation

09 Jul 2024

Five Cambridge researchers join the community of over 2,100 leading life scientists today as the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)...

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Dr Aidan Starr

Why a mysterious ocean pattern could rapidly change our climate

04 Jul 2024

Dr Aidan Starr is a paleoceanographer. In journeying back 2 million years, he hopes to fill in the missing chapters of our oceans and predict where...

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