The fight against cancer is set to go into cyberspace with the launch of a 500,000 Oxford University project, writes Mark Templeton.
A network of experts from around the world will swap ideas and theories over the Internet in the search for a cure. The University Chemistry Department's project, called the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) Centre for Computational Drug Design, will run for five years and initially include collaborators from Spain, Portugal, Italy and London. It will be headed by the department's chairman of chemistry, Professor Graham Richards.
Prof Richards said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to use the Internet to unite groups who could make real inroads into anti-cancer drug design." The NFCR is a cancer charity formed in 1973 to support research into the prevention, treatment and cure of the disease.
It has provided more than 100m to fund research into the prevention and diagnosis of all types of cancer.
The Oxford Chemistry Department is the largest in the world and has produced four Nobel prizewinners.
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