Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is a collaborative research institute that conducts and enables high-impact translational cancer research. We help to accelerate the development of discoveries for patients around the world while maximizing the economic benefit of this research for the people of Ontario.

In collaboration with our partners in healthcare, research, government and the private sector, we:

• Conduct cross-disciplinary cancer research in fields such as genomics, immuno-oncology, informatics, drug discovery and molecular pathology

• Enable research in Ontario and worldwide by building collaborative networks, securely sharing data, and making tools and resources available to the research community

• Translate our research findings to the clinic by developing clinical guidelines, supporting clinical trials and working with our strategic partner FACIT to advance the commercialization of our innovations and IP.

All our funded research goes through independent peer review and is overseen by external scientific advisory committees.