Joint Annual Research Report 2004 - The Royal Marsden

ACADEMIC DEAN’S REPORT 2004
We acknowledge and thank those organisations
which have supported our students during the past year:
Cancer Research UK, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the
Medical Research Council, The Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, Leukaemia Research, the Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council and AstraZeneca.
The Institute's Graduation Ceremony for students
who completed their awards in 2004 took place at the
Brookes Lawley Building in Sutton. For students and
their families it provided a perfect setting for the
celebration of their awards. Two MPhils, six MDs and
32 PhDs were awarded by the University of London
(Table 1). The Institute's Chairman, Lord Faringdon,
presented prizes for the best PhD students to Geoffrey
Charles-Edwards and Mathew Garnett. Dr Trevor Hince,
Professor Allan van Oosterom, Dr Peter Bailey, Dr Mark
Bodmer and Dr Tony Diment were appointed as
Members of The Institute in honour of their
contributions towards advancing The Institute's
objectives. Mr Neil Ashley, Lord Bell, Mr Rory and
Mrs Elizabeth Brooks, Mr Raymond Mould, Lady Otton,
Mrs Susan Rathbone, Mr Julian Seymour and Mr David
Wootton were appointed as members of The Institute’s
Development Board whose objective is to assist with
The Institute’s fundraising. Miss Sue Clinton, Dr Maggie
Flower, Mr John Harris, Mr Alan Hewer, Mrs Betty Lloyd,
Mr Kenneth Markham, Mrs Ruth Marriott, Mr Geoff
Parnell and Mr Bill Warren were honoured as Associates
of The Institute in recognition of their many years of
service and achievements.
Visitors
The Institute had the usual large number of visitors
to its laboratories. We are fortunate in having the
resources of the Haddow Fund with which to foster
important links with the international scientific
community attracted by the excellence of the science
at The Institute. This year the Haddow Fund supported
the International Testicular Cancer Linkage Consortium,
the 3 rd International Conference on the Ultrasonic
Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity hosted
by The Institute, and visits from Dr Helga Ögmundsdóttir
to work with Dr Sue Eccles and Dr Asher Salmon to
work with Dr Ros Eeles.
Interactive Education Unit
Kathryn Allen PhD, Director
The Interactive Education Unit (IEU) was established at
The Institute in 1999 with the remit to develop Weband
CD ROM-based educational resources
(www.ieu.icr.ac.uk). The overarching aim of the
IEU is to promote and disseminate the educational,
research and clinical activities of The Institute in order
to improve the treatment, care and quality of life of
people with cancer. The Unit’s work was highlighted
as an area of good practice in the educational audit of
The Institute in early 2004, undertaken by the Quality
Assurance Agency. The IEU website was a Platinum
award winner in the 2004 MarCom creative awards,
a leading international marketing and
communications competition.
IEU projects are developed in collaboration with
leading scientists and clinicians at both The Institute
and the Royal Marsden. The Unit has three key markets:
scientists and students, healthcare professionals and
patients and the public.
Scientists and students –
developing resources to aid research/
career development
Examples of projects in this category are:
The Study Skills Website – this website was launched
in July 2002 on The Institute’s intranet. It aims to
provide students with a range of transferable skills
such as time management, presentation,
organisation and writing. The website is part of
Figure 1.
A page from the
bioinformatics module
of Perspectives in
Oncology – the cancer
science website.
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