Main Sponsors
Become a sponsor
Becoming a sponsor of the NCRI Cancer Conference will reinforce your organisation's position as a leading player in cancer research and treatment, and provide you with access to high quality audiences. For more information on becoming a sponsor, click here.
Silver Sponsor
Roche
Roche aims to improve people’s health and quality of life with innovative products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Part of one of the world’s leading healthcare groups, Roche in the UK employs nearly 2,000 people in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
Further Silver sponsorship opportunities available. For more information about becoming a sponsor, please contact our sponsorship co-ordinator
Bronze Sponsor
Bayer Schering Pharma
Prolonging life and improving quality of life – these are Bayer Schering Pharma’s aims to achieve breakthroughs in cancer therapy. The company’s Research and Development is currently directed at therapy for haematological malignancies and solid tumours.
Pfizer Ltd
Pfizer is a research-based global pharmaceutical company with a growing commitment to oncology. In addition to well-established and successful chemotherapy and hormonal products for the treatment of breast and colorectal cancers, our portfolio includes an exciting tyrosine kinase inhibitor licensed for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma and GIST. Pfizer boasts one of the broadest oncology pipelines in the industry, with over 20 candidates pre-clinical and clinical testing.
AstraZeneca
Continuing a tradition of research excellence that has led to the discovery of some of the world’s leading anti-cancer agents, AstraZeneca has a strong portfolio of developmental agents based on biologically targeted therapeutic strategies. These include targeting proliferation, angiogenesis, apoptosis and invasion.
iCafe Sponsor
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline’s mission is to improve quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, and live longer. GlaxoSmithKline is committed to the research and development of innovative oncology products in order to make a difference to the lives of patients with cancer.
Programme Sponsorship
Plenary Speaker Sponsorship
Sunday 5 October
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research
Tony Kouzarides
Chromatin modifying enzymes: their function and role in cancer
15.00 — 15.40
Read Biography
| Read Absract
The Association of Cancer Physicians
Martine Piccart
Tailoring adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer: dream or reality?
15.40 — 16.20
Read Biography
| Read Absract
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Harvey Chochinov
Dying with dignity: a contemporary challenge in palliative cancer care
18.10 — 18.50
Read Biography
| Read Absract
Medical Research Council
Valerie Beral
Title to be confirmed
18.50 — 19.30
Read Biography
Monday 6 October
CR-UK London Research Institute
Sir Paul Nurse
Controlling the cell cycle
09.10 — 09.50
Read Biography
| Read Absract
British Association for Cancer Research
Rebecca Fitzgerald
Preinvasive disease: catching it earlier, understanding it better, hitting it harder
09.50 — 10.30
Read Biography
| Read Absract
Tuesday 7 October
The Prostate Cancer Charity
Howard Scher
Title to be confirmed
09.00 — 09.40
Read Biography
Cancer Research UK
Lisa Coussens
Inflammation and cancer: organ-specific regulation of cancer development
09.40 — 10.20
Read Biography
| Read Absract
The Institute of Cancer Research
Rakesh Jain
Normalising tumour vessels and microenvironment to treat cancer: from the bench to bedside and back
18.00 — 18.40
Read Biography
| Read Absract
The Cambridge Research Institute
Joe Gray
Title to be confirmed
18.40 — 19.20
Read Biography
Wednesday 8 October
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
Mariano Barbacid
Ras genes, Ras oncogenes and cancer
11.45 — 12.25
Read Biography
| Read Absract
Symposia Sponsorship
Sponsorship details to be confirmed. For more information about becoming a sponsor, please contact our sponsorship co-ordinator
Parallel Session Sponsorship
Sponsorship details to be confirmed. For more information about becoming a sponsor, please contact our sponsorship co-ordinator
Workshop Sponsorship
Sunday 5 October
The Cancer Recognised Research Group in Northern Ireland
12.30 — 14.45
Metabolism and Signalling in Cancer: The Cancer Recognised Research Group in Northern Ireland (CRRG) Workshop
(View session details)
Monday 6 October
Merck Serono
Commercial Workshop
13.00 — 14.00
Merck Serono: details to be confirmed
(View session details)
Tuesday 7 October
Illumina
Commercial Workshop
13.00 — 14.00
Illumina: details to be confirmed
(View session details)
Sponsorship details to be confirmed. For more information about becoming a sponsor, please contact our sponsorship co-ordinator
Other Sponsors
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23/7/2008 Deadline for late-breaking abstract submission: Monday 4 August |
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7/7/2008 Late-breaking abstract submission is now open |
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5/7/2008 2008 NCRI Conference awarded 20 ’Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) credits |
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27/5/2008 Registration now open. Register early for Earlybird rates |












