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Michelle Mitchell on The Francis Crick Institute Cut + Paste exhibition

Photo taken from Michelle Mitchell OBE/Linkedin

Oct 15, 2023, 17:22

Michelle Mitchell on The Francis Crick Institute Cut + Paste exhibition

Michelle Mitchell shared the following on LinkedIn:

“It was wonderful to come together with some of our partners, supporters, and ambassadors, at The Francis Crick Institute Cut + Paste exhibition last night. Our vision of creating a world where everybody lives, longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer wouldn’t be possible without their support and we’re extremely grateful. Together we are beating cancer.

We were also lucky to be joined by our fantastic speakers, Dr Gillian Farnie, Group Leader of the Cancer Research Horizons Team at The Crick who shared the drug discovery research Cancer Research UK (CRUK) funds, and one of our media volunteers, Mei-Ling who shared her personal experience of cancer.”

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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.