Facilities & Support

Core Facilities

The core facilities span the traditional areas of Molecular Biology, Histology, Imaging, Flow Cytometry, Mass Spectrometry and in vivo technologies, however new services are frequently delivered as a result of collaboration between facilities to provide seamless workflows that span across these traditionally separate disciplines.

The rapidly evolving field of spatial genomics is a good example of this where collaboration between Molecular Biology Core, Histology, Visualisation, Irradiation & Analysis (VIA) and Scientific Computing has enabled development of new workflows. Scientific Computing has also worked with the Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility and Computational Biology to develop workflows based on High Performance virtualisation infrastructure, leading to some exciting new opportunities for mass spectrometry data analysis.

As technologies have evolved over the last few years, this close interaction between the traditional core facility areas has become vital and together they provide seamless end to end support for novel technology applications.

Support across the research lifecycle

At the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, our goal is to provide all the necessary services and structures to support high-quality research.  Alongside our exceptional Core Facilities, researchers are supported by dedicated teams and individuals covering areas including Human Resources, Health and Safety, Wellbeing, Data Protection, Grant Writing, Research Integrity and more.

Click below for more information on each team and how they support research teams across the Institute.

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Institute life in Manchester

We strive to make our community a welcoming, caring and enthusiastic one, fuelling ambition with opportunities for training and mentoring to help us all achieve our personal and professional goals.

“We are so pleased to have received the funding to enable us to test our hypothesis in the lab. If we can create a new medicine that can precisely target a specific type of cell within the tumour, and restore anti-cancer immune responses, this will be a game-changer for oesophageal cancer patients “

Sara Valpione

Former Institute Clinical Fellow and now Clinician in Residence within the CRUK National Biomarker Centre

“My charity bake sales – known as “David’s Great British Bake Off” – are always a hit, home baked products taste so much better than shop bought and are greatly appreciated by staff!”

David Jenkins

Purchasing Officer

“We’ve seen some remarkable responses, with an improvement for some patients within days. This is an early phase trial so there’s a lot more work to do. But the data we have so far is very encouraging and could help many thousands of people in the future”

Tim Somervaille

Senior Group Leader

“It is a pleasure to introduce my team who work to deliver our research goals. We work in a friendly and collaborative environment, supporting each other’s projects.  “

Amaya Virós

CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellow

Careers that have a lasting impact on cancer research and patient care

We are always on the lookout for talented and motivated people to join us.  Whether your background is in biological or chemical sciences, mathematics or finance, computer science or logistics, use the links below to see roles across the Institute in our core facilities, operations teams, research groups, and studentships within our exceptional graduate programme.