Group leaders

We're recruiting the top figures in cancer research to work in a vibrant and confident culture that consistently produces world-changing research.

Beginning your career

Joining as a group leader, you will receive outstanding support to advance your career, including a competitive start-up package, tailored guidance to start your first group leader position, space and resources, and will receive help in recruiting your research team, both staff and PhD students, to build your group.

You will be enrolled in a development programme aimed at early career researchers, providing you with the skills and techniques required to make you a confident and effective group leader. We also have a wealth of training programmes run by out Learning and Development department that allow you to develop as a manager.

You’ll have the space to grow, excel and make your mark while gaining dedicated support with grant applications, leadership training.

We support our scientists with state-of-the-art platform technologies and expert facilities staff, providing cutting-edge facilities for microscopy, imaging, sequencing, proteomics, X-ray crystallography and much more.

Senior positions

To become part of our career faculty, you will be an established senior researcher and have the proven leadership skills and international research credibility to direct major scientific programmes, and build and manage a motivated and high-performing scientific team.

Our culture emphasises the importance of collaborative working to address the big challenges in cancer research, and you will be expected to form part of the wider ICR team. You will also recruit and develop the research leaders of the future.