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Gray Laboratory

Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
Formation 1953 (as Gray Laboratory at Mount Vernon Hospital)
Purpose Radiation biology research
Headquarters Department of Oncology
Location
Region served
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Director
Professor Gillies Mckenna
Affiliations

Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)

Cancer Research UK
Website www.radiationoncology.ox.ac.uk
Formerly called

Gray Cancer Institute

Gray Laboratory

Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)

Gray Cancer Institute

The Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology is an institute dedicated to research on radiobiology and radiotherapy. It is funded by the charity Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council and is based at the University of Oxford's Department of Oncology.

The institute was founded as the Gray Laboratory at Mount Vernon Hospital by Louis Harold Gray in 1953 as the world's first radiobiological institute. Early research focused on the "Oxygen effect" to improve radio sensitivity of tumours. The institute at Mount Vernon was home to a unique 4 MeV heavy ion Van de Graaff accelerator.

Research on the effects of oxygenation has continued, as well as other projects and collaborations including work on proton accelerators. The institute remained at Mount Vernon Hospital until 2008 when it relocated to Oxford after the Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University.


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