Education and Integration

The Cardiff Cancer Research Partnership has a future-focused cancer workforce in Wales to drive new drug advances that will transform patient outcomes.

We are not just a partnership for cancer research – we will be transformational for training new scientists and clinicians, attracting a highly skilled workforce to Wales and for offering new options for patients and their families. We accelerate the achievements of our basic scientists, innovators, and drug developers, enabling us to propel our most promising new targets forward in a bedside-to-bench-and-back approach.

To truly make a difference for cancer patients, we need the infrastructure and a skilled workforce ready to test and deliver these sophisticated therapies and the Cardiff Cancer Research Partnership is pivotal in turning this ambition into reality.

Thanks to a Wellcome Trust Institutional Translation Partnership Award from Cardiff University, a multidisciplinary team of medics, nurses, and pharmacists from both Cardiff and Vale and Velindre went on development visits to leading Cell Therapy centres across the UK.

Growing our knowledge and expertise is essential to advancing our clinical capabilities in this revolutionary field. This will open the door to new opportunities for patients with both blood and solid cancers to participate in early-phase clinical trials of CAR-T and T cell therapies, alongside other cutting-edge immune and non-immune based treatments developed by Cardiff University researchers.