Our portfolio

With an extensive partner network and exclusive rights to over £400m in cancer research each year, we're a powerful partner in the fight to conquer cancer.

Explore our cancer-focused portfolio and discover a broad range of opportunities related to drug development, licensing, data and investing.

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new drugs marketed

95+

start-ups supported

£600m+

revenue from royalties and IP

150+

active licence agreements

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Our therapeutic pipeline

We're accelerating ground-breaking discoveries into life-improving treatments through our robust and sustainable pipeline. Our therapeutic portfolio spans the entire drug discovery process, from early stage discovery through to first-in-human studies and beyond.

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Oesophageal Cancer Clinical and Molecular Stratification (OCCAMS)

One of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of clinically linked, multi-omics data from oesophageal cancer patients. Clinical data from over 4,000 patients across 27 UK centres, encompassing demographic details, treatment regimens, responses and outcomes.

OPTIMAM mammography image database (OMI-DB)

A large curated and centralized database of 2D and 3D mammogram images with annotations and associated clinical data from multiple NHS Breast Cancer screening sites. Available for licencing by commercial and non-profit organizations.

Glutaminase inhibitors

Potent, selective and orally bioavailable series of small molecules inhibiting glutaminase, with superior developability. Available for co-development.

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Our start-up portfolio

We've built an incredible assembly line for start-up companies to bring early-stage technologies out of the research lab and translate them into patient benefit.

To date, we've played a role in the creation of 79 start-ups, with our portfolio of existing companies raising in excess of £3bn in total capital.

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CancerTools

CancerTools is a non-profit, global research tools collaborative where cancer researchers from over 180 institutes worldwide, contribute research tools and share knowledge to accelerate cancer research discoveries. 

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Data portfolio

We're helping to unlock the potential of this data by supporting researchers to improve the utility and accessibility of data, and establish secure, trusted, patient-approved data partnerships. 

Discover our oncology-focused data projects available for licensing or collaboration.

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ALTx Therapeutics launches into the Slingshot accelerator with £12.55m of funding

Portfolio news

Slingshot Therapeutics Limited, the Syncona Accelerator, today announces the launch of ALTx Therapeutics, with a funding commitment of £12.55m from Syncona, the Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research Horizons.


 

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