our staff and postgraduate students work in the faculty of medical sciences or the school of natural and environmental sciences. the newcastle university centre for cancer operates right across the cancer research pathway with strengths ranging from cell biology and clinical trials to healthcare research and cancer research training, including: cancer discovery bioscience translational cancer research population-based cancer research we're a major training base for the next generation of cancer researchers. our centre covers many areas of cancer research, including: childhood cancers drug discovery and therapeutics clinical trials, biomarkers and pharmacology