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Michelle Mitchell: CRUK teams bring different approaches and expertise to the challenge of beating cancer

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Jul 15, 2024, 14:25

Michelle Mitchell: CRUK teams bring different approaches and expertise to the challenge of beating cancer

Michelle Mitchell shared on LinkedIn:

“I’ve had the pleasure of joining the Research and Innovation and Policy, Information and Communications team away days recently. Away days are a fantastic chance for me to hear from colleagues and to chat to them about what the future holds for Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

Both of those teams bring different approaches and expertise to the challenge of beating cancer and their bold ambition and passion to drive change is making an impact on the lives of people with and affected by cancer.”

Michelle Mitchell

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Michelle Mitchell is the first female chief executive of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the world’s leading charitable funder of cancer research. In 2021/22 the charity had an income of £668m, spent £443m on cancer research and had approximately 4,000 staff and over 30,000 volunteers.

Before joining Cancer Research UK, Michelle was CEO of the MS Society for five years and a founding member of the Progressive MS Alliance: a global scientific and research joint venture and launched the STOP MS £100m appeal.

Prior to that, she was Director General at Age UK, the UK’s largest older people’s charity where she worked for nearly a decade and was at the forefront of national debates on health, care and welfare. Mitchell was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to Older People and the Voluntary Sector. She was named by Cranfield University as one of the 100 Women to Watch in 2018.