The Institute of Cancer Research
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, is one of the world’s most influential cancer research institutes. We are passionate about our mission to make the discoveries that defeat cancer. Our aim is to deliver excellent research for the benefit of patients and our track record in discovering and developing new targeted drugs is unrivalled in academia. Together with our hospital partner, The Royal Marsden (RMH), we are the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and rated in the top four cancer centres globally.
We aim to improve outcomes for children and teenagers with cancer by helping them live longer and by improving their quality of life – important steps towards our ultimate goal – to cure cancer. The ICR’s Professor Louis Chesler is working to understand the biology of children’s cancers and use that information to discover and develop new personalised approaches to cancer treatment. His research involves the three most common solid tumours of children – neuroblastoma, a nerve tumour, rhabdomyosarcoma, a muscle tumour, and medulloblastoma, a brain tumour. He leads the Paediatric Solid Tumour Biology and Therapeutics Group at the ICR.