UK’s National Cancer Research Institute to shut down, citing ‘risk of operational failure’

The UK non­prof­it Na­tion­al Can­cer Re­search In­sti­tute (NCRI) is wind­ing down its op­er­a­tions af­ter 22 years of ad­vanc­ing can­cer re­search.

NCRI chair Fiona Driscoll an­nounced the news in a let­ter on Mon­day.

“We are proud that many of the orig­i­nal pur­pos­es of the NCRI have been achieved or tak­en over as busi­ness as usu­al by Part­ners. How­ev­er, un­cer­tain­ty in the wider eco­nom­ic and re­search en­vi­ron­ment has had an im­pact,” Driscoll said.

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