Association for International Cancer Research
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Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) is a cancer research
association based in the United Kingdom
. It is the leading charity that funds cancer research anywhere in the world.
Founded in 1979, the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) has awarded over €135,000,000 in research grants in 32 different countries. AICR supports fundamental research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer by awarding research grants and fellowships. In the year ending September 2009, AICR awarded approximately £10 million in cancer research grants of which about half were outside the UK.
AICR has a number of celebrity ambassadors including David Tennant
, Peter Capaldi
, Lorraine Kelly
and the Proclaimers.
AICR is a member of the UK's National Cancer Research Institute
.
The AICR Head Office is based in St Andrews, Scotland and its charitable registration is at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
. It does not appear in the Charity Commission
register, which sometimes causes people to assume - incorrectly - that it is not a proper charity. However, the Charity Commission only regulates charities in England and Wales and its register does not include charities registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Cancer research
Cancer research is basic research into cancer in order to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatments and cure....
association based in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It is the leading charity that funds cancer research anywhere in the world.
Founded in 1979, the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) has awarded over €135,000,000 in research grants in 32 different countries. AICR supports fundamental research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer by awarding research grants and fellowships. In the year ending September 2009, AICR awarded approximately £10 million in cancer research grants of which about half were outside the UK.
AICR has a number of celebrity ambassadors including David Tennant
David Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
, Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldi is an Academy Award and BAFTA award winning Scottish actor and film director. In 1995, his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film...
, Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Lorraine.-Early life:...
and the Proclaimers.
AICR is a member of the UK's National Cancer Research Institute
National Cancer Research Institute
The National Cancer Research Institute is a partnership between the government, charity and industry in the United Kingdom that takes a strategic planning role in co-ordinating cancer research...
.
The AICR Head Office is based in St Andrews, Scotland and its charitable registration is at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator is a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government, with responsibility for the regulation of charities in Scotland...
. It does not appear in the Charity Commission
Charity Commission
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales....
register, which sometimes causes people to assume - incorrectly - that it is not a proper charity. However, the Charity Commission only regulates charities in England and Wales and its register does not include charities registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland.