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The Institute of Cancer Research (the ICR) is a public research institute and university located in London, United Kingdom, specialised in oncology, and a constituent college of the University of London. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Long-term Achievements )〕 The ICR occupies two sites, one in Chelsea, Central London and one in Sutton, southwest London, and had a total income of £96.4 million in 2012/13, of which £52.3 million was from peer-reviewed research grant awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2013 )〕 The ICR provides both taught postgraduate degree programmes and research degrees and currently has around 340 students. Together with the Royal Marsden Hospital the ICR forms the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, and was ranked first amongst all British higher education institutions in the ''Times Higher Education'' 2014 Research Excellence Framework Table of Excellence. In clinical medicine, 83% and in biological sciences, 96% of the ICR’s academic research was assessed to be world leading or internationally excellent (4 * or 3 *).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ICR tops league table of university excellence )〕 The ICR receives its external grant funding from the government body the Higher Education Funding Council for England, from government research council bodies and from charities including the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. It also receives voluntary income from legacies and from public and corporate donations. It runs the Everyman Campaign fundraising appeal, which raises awareness of male cancers and funds research into testicular and prostate cancer at the Everyman Centre, which is based at the ICR. ==Sites== The ICR occupies two sites, one in Chelsea, Central London and one in Sutton, southwest London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institute of Cancer Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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