Welcome to the Department of Oncology. The Department of Oncology's mission is to improve cancer care through research and teaching. There is strong emphasis on translation, with established infrastructure to develop scientific insights toward clinical appreciation.

The Department houses over 400 staff and postgraduate students — both clinical and non-clinical — and is one of the largest departments in the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division.

One of the key aims for the Department is to bring together basic scientific and clinical research groups from across Oxford — based in the Old Road Campus Research Building, the Radiobiology Research Institute, the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and the NHS Cancer and Haematology Centre — to apply knowledge of cancer and to develop research so that we may better understand how we can combat cancer in the most effective way possible.

Professor Mark Middleton