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About the YCR Cancer Research UnitThe Department of Biology at the University of YorkThe Cancer Research Unit is located within the Department of Biology, University of York, which is a large and diverse Department, rated as a Grade 5 (research excellent) in the top group of Biology Departments in all recent surveys of the UK Universities.More information on the Department of Biology The YCR Cancer Research UnitThe YCR Cancer Research Unit at the University of York was set up in 1980 by the then Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign , recently renamed Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR), which is an independent charity dedicated to funding cancer research within Yorkshire.In 1990 it was decided to establish a new Chair of Molecular Biology at the University and that Professor Norman J. Maitland, as Director of the Cancer Research Unit, would bring molecular sciences into the study of cancer. Funding for the Cancer Research Unit is provided by a programme grant from Yorkshire Cancer Research, providing core running expenses and essential personnel. There are five staff scientists, five technical assistants (including a chief technician), a full time secretary and a part time media and glassware preparation assistant for the unit. In addition to this there are several research students studying for both Masters and Doctorate degrees, a number of intermittent visitors from the United Kingdom and abroad, together with undergraduates studying for BSc degrees who are working within the unit. Further scientific staff are dependent on the success of research grant applications to British Government and charitable foundations like YCR. Recent publications from the CRU Current personnel working at the CRU About Professor Norman J MaitlandIn January 1991, Norman J Maitland was appointed Director of the YCR Cancer Research Unit and YCR Professor of Molecular Biology from his previous position in the Department of Pathology at the University of Bristol. On his arrival in October 1991 the Cancer Research Unit was completely refurbished at the University's expense, modernised and re-equipped by Yorkshire Cancer Research to take advantage of the new and exciting developments in molecular biology. Professor Maitland has more than 25
years research experience in studying the relationship between oncogenic
viruses and human cancer. His background
has been one of a training in molecular biology at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory (which was then directed by James Watson, of Watson and
Crick fame) for the investigation of the role of viruses in human cancer,
initially
in the Department of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh and latterly
in the Pathology Department at the University of Bristol, where his
interests broadened into other types of human cancer. He has had more
than twenty
years experience in the supervision of research students and in this
time over 30 students have successfully passed through his laboratory,
all have gained PhDs or MDs, and good posts after their degrees, seeking
to publish a minimum of two papers in the course of their studies. |
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