Institute of Cancer Sciences, Paul O'Gorman Building

The Institute of Cancer Sciences at University College London was officially opened on the 18th September 2007.

We have been fundraising since 2004 for this new facility and, in recognition of our contribution, the building in which the Institute is housed has been named the Paul O'Gorman Building.

Eddie and Marion O'Gorman and Paul's sister, Sandra, cut the ribbon at the opening.

The new Institute will co-ordinate all of UCL’s cancer research, providing a focus for excellent basic science and translational studies across the College’s different sites.

Ultimately, the Institute will house over 350 scientists and clinicians embedded within one of the finest, largest and most productive biomedical faculties in Europe.

Included will be substantial new facilities for research of direct relevance to leukaemia in childhood.

Haemato-oncology research will be one of the major themes in the new Institute, along with the study of other cancers in adolescents and young adults.

Research will also focus on the causes and treatment of leukaemia, not just in children but also in teenagers.

Read more about our research into causes and treatments

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