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About CRUK Scotland Institute

Find out what we do, how we do it and why we do what we do.

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History

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Organisation Governance

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Scientific Advisory Board

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Sources of Funding

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Life in Glasgow

Find out about living and working in Glasgow and Scotland.

Our Research

Explore the science at CRUK Scotland Institute. Our research groups, the people who lead them, and how we work.

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Research Groups

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Vision and Strategy

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Research Integrity

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Grant Support

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Sustainability

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Use of Animals

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Annual Reports

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AI and Computational Biology

Advanced Technologies

State-of-the-art facilities and specialist expertise supporting research across the Institute.

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Technologies overview

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Beatson Advanced Imaging Resource

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Translational Molecular Imaging

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Flow Cytometry

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Mass Spectrometry

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Molecular Technology

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Deep Phenotyping

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Histology Service

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Transgenic Models of Cancer

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Transgenic Technology

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Data Science and Data Management

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Bioinformatics and Data Science

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Translational Research Collaborations Unit

Operations

The teams and services that keep the Institute running and support our research.

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Finance

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Information Services

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People and Culture

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Research Management

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Support Operations

Partners

The networks and organisations we work with to accelerate cancer research.

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Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre

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CRC Stars

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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network

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CRUK SI-UoG-Indonesia PhD Programme

Careers & Study

Jobs, studentships and opportunities for students at every stage at our world-renowned cancer research institute.

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Careers & Study Overview

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Current Vacancies

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Studentships

PhD opportunities at the Institute
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Studentship Vacancies

Open studentships to apply for
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CRUK SI-UoG-Indonesia PhD Programme

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John Paul Career Award

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Internships

For undergraduate and masters students
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High School Students

Events

The Institute hosts a range of seminars and meetings bringing international cancer researchers to Glasgow.

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All Events

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Glasgow Cancer Seminar Series

MRC National Mouse Genetics Network

The MRC National Mouse Genetics Network (NMGN) consists of eight disease-focused clusters pursuing distinctive, but complementary, challenge-led research and the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell acting as a central hub generating and robustly phenotyping strains, performing pre-clinical trials, and providing training.

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Years

Funding

Research Clusters

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Mouse Models Created

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The Mary Lyon Centre

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Ageing

Time-resolved high-resolution map of age-associated phenotypic, cellular, and molecular changes in the mouse
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Cancer

Using complex state-of-the-art mouse models of cancer to improve the understanding and treatment of human cancer.
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Congenital Anomalies

Patient-led functional genomics – generation of precisely engineered mouse models of gene variants identified in patients and improved automated monitoring of early life.
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Degron Tagging

Precision control of protein dosage – our cluster aims to translate degron technologies into mouse models of human disease and share protocols with the community.
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Haem

Developing new tools to revolutionise how we study normal and stressed haematopoiesis, and how we map and manipulate immune cell function for clinical benefit.
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Microbiome

Mouse models of barrier immunity dysfunction will allow investigation of the impact of the microbiome in human diseases involving barrier surfaces and new drug development.
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Mitochondria

An integrated phenotyping and mouse model generation platform for mitochondrial disease and dysfunction that aims to deliver new insights, therapies, and biomarkers.
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MURIDAE

MURIDAE (Modalities for Understanding, Recording and Integrating Data Across Early life) aims to improve the translatability of mouse models for neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disease.

Key within these clusters are both experts in developing mouse genetic models, and translational and clinical scientists to provide a clear path to clinical translation. Furthermore, the clusters interact with each other to capitalise on the numerous opportunities there will be for cross-disease learning.

The CRUK Scotland Institute plays an essential role within the Network with Owen Sansom as Network Director and through the Cancer cluster, led by Karen Blyth. Find out more about the Network on our website:

nmgn.mrc.ukri.org