Spotlight on Re-write Cancer
03 Oct 2022
Staff Survey - making a difference
The Staff Survey is your opportunity to have your say and tell us what you think about working here so that we can make positive improvements.
Not only that, but this year, the University will be donating £1 for every completed survey to Re-write Cancer - money that will help create a new life-saving cancer research centre, right in the heart of Manchester.
We talked to Professor Rob Bristow, Director of Manchester Cancer Research Centre and Professor of Cancer Studies at the University, to find out more about the cause.
What is Re-write Cancer?
One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives. Here at our University, we’re tackling the disease from all angles - from developing novel new treatments to finding ways to detect cancer earlier.
But in 2017, this life-saving research suffered a major setback. Manchester’s cancer research centre - the Paterson building - was destroyed in a devastating fire. Hundreds of researchers were displaced to temporary labs across the region.
Today, you can help create a brand new cancer centre that’s bigger and better than before.
Where will the money go?
Donations will help create a world-leading cancer centre twice the size of the old Paterson building. It will contain one of the largest concentrations of doctors, nurses and researchers in Europe. And it will pave the way for amazing discoveries that save lives around the world.
The building will be purpose-built to speed up the pace of discovery. It will bring clinicians and researchers together, so they can join forces to develop and test new treatments. And it will mean ground-breaking new therapies reach patients much sooner.
Where is the new centre being built?
The new centre will be just metres from Europe's largest cancer hospital, The Christie, putting people with cancer at the heart of everything we do. The University's partnerships with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK make this the perfect place to turn scientific progress into life-saving solutions for patients.
Play your part today
Thanks to generous donors and funders around the world, construction on the new building is well underway. Now you can help keep this life-saving project on track.
We're hoping to finish work on the new centre at the end of 2022. But to make sure that happens, we urgently need to raise the final funds to complete the building, and get it ready for our scientists to move in.
That's where you can help. Together we can make discoveries that will re-write the future and save countless lives. Please complete your Staff Survey now so that we receive the highest possible contribution to Re-write Cancer (that’ll be over £13,000 if we all fill it in).
Will you complete your Staff Survey today, and play your part in re-writing the future of cancer?