A significant strength of Bristol is the coherent cancer community, with a leadership group made up of researchers at different career stages and from a broad range of expertise who interact to cross-fertilise research ideas and develop novel insights. These include researchers based in the Faculties of Engineering and Science, and include physicists, chemists and mathematicians working on improving the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. 

Projects in this area include:

• The Bristol Particle Physics group who are looking to make radiotherapy treatment safer
• The School of Chemistry who are working alongside clinicians, engineers and epidemiologists to develop a bllod test for the early detection of brain cancers
• The Hauert Lab based in the Department of Engineering Mathematics who are designing nanoparticles capable to targeting cancer cells to deliver anti-cancer medicines more safely