Reports

Report of the General Board on the establishment of a Professorship of Cancer Sciences

The General Board begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The General Board recommends the establishment of a Professorship of Cancer Sciences as set out in paragraph 2 below. The funding arrangements were approved by the Resource Management Committee on 8 February 2017.

2. The General Board has accepted an academic case from the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine for the establishment for a single tenure of a Professorship of Cancer Sciences, from 1 February 2018, in the Department of Oncology.1 The full cost of the Professorship will be met by Cancer Research UK. The Professor of Cancer Sciences will be appointed as Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute in accordance with the agreement between the University and Cancer Research UK concerning the governance of the Institute. The General Board has agreed that election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that candidature should be open without limitation or preference to all persons whose work falls within the general field of the title of the Professorship.

3. The General Board recommends:

I. That a Professorship of Cancer Sciences be established for a single tenure in the University, from 1 February 2018, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1 and assigned to the Department of Oncology.1

15 February 2017	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Roberta Huldisch	Helen Thompson
	Chad Allen	Patrick Maxwell	Graham Virgo
	Philip Allmendinger	Martin Millett	Mark Wormald
	Abigail Fowden	Richard Prager	Chris Young
	David Good