BRITAIN’s largest centre for developing drugs against cancer opens this week. Ken Harrap, a biochemical pharmacologist, will head the team of more than 60 scientists at the Centre for Cancer Therapeutics. The Cancer Research Campaign will manage the centre, which is based at the Institute of Cancer Research in Surrey.
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