A third site in Sutton, Southwest London, houses more research facilities. The ICR occupies two sites in Chelsea, Central London which include the Chester Beatty Laboratories and the ICR corporate offices. The ICR also runs a number of fundraising appeals and campaigns which help support a variety of cancer research projects. It also receives voluntary income from legacies and from public and corporate donations. The ICR receives its external grant funding from the government body the Higher Education Funding Council for England, from government research council bodies and from charities including the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, Breast Cancer Now and Bloodwise. The annual income of the institution for 2021–22 was £161.2 million of which £64.1 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £163.5 million. In clinical medicine, 97% and in biological sciences, 99% of the ICR's academic research was assessed to be world leading or internationally excellent (4* or 3*). Together with the Royal Marsden Hospital the ICR forms the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, and was ranked second amongst all British higher education institutions in the Times Higher Education's assessment of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. The ICR provides both taught postgraduate degree programmes and research degrees and currently has around 340 students. The ICR occupies sites in Chelsea, Central London and Sutton, southwest London. It has been responsible for a number of breakthrough discoveries, including that the basic cause of cancer is damage to DNA.
It was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital and joined the University of London in 2003. The Institute of Cancer Research (the ICR) is a public research institute and a member institution of the University of London in London, United Kingdom, specialising in oncology.
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