Imperial Cancer Research Fund Advisory Committee

Date:: 1972

Reference:: PP/CRI/E/1/20/4

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# PROPOSALS FOR THE MILL HILL LABORATORIES GENERAL BACKGROUND After extension of the Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories I.C.R.F. will have facilities for the following, expressed as approximate units of scientific staff space, excluding technicians. Aire ady Committed Lincoln's Inn Fields 140 110 Mill Hill 30 8 Units : Tumour Immunology 4 4 Medical Oncology 4 4 Breast Cancer 2 2 The major research interests in the central laboratories are - Clinical and experimental endocrinology Cell membranes and cell growth Experimental tumour virology Other important interests are: Chemotherapy in the Medical Oncology Unit, and the Cancer Chemotherapy Department, and Tumour Immunology in Professor Mitchisons's Unit at University College. For the future we should like to reserve space for research on human tumour viruses, and the possible clinical applications of work on cell membranes and antigens. These developments could be at Lincoln's Inn Fields or Mill Hill, or in a further unit which is projected at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.