# European Association for Cancer Research

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## TL;DR

Europe's professional society for cancer researchers, running the EACR Congress and the open-access journal Molecular Oncology.

## Summary

Founded in 1968 and based at the University of Nottingham, the European Association for Cancer Research is the membership society for basic, translational and clinical cancer scientists in Europe and beyond. It organises the biennial EACR Congress and a programme of focused conferences and training courses, publishes Molecular Oncology as an open-access journal with FEBS Press, awards travel fellowships and prizes for early-career researchers, and works with the AACR and other societies on global research policy and open science. It is a member of the European Cancer Organisation.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: EACR
- City: Nottingham, GB
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.eacr.org

## Sources

- Homepage: https://www.eacr.org
- Molecular Oncology: https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18780261

## Connected records

- fronts: [Drug Discovery Platforms](https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/)
- institutions: [American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)](https://onco.cc/institutions/aacr/), [Cancer Research UK](https://onco.cc/institutions/cruk/), [European Cancer Organisation](https://onco.cc/institutions/ecco/)
- people: [Johanna Joyce](https://onco.cc/people/johanna-joyce/)
- bottlenecks: [Knowledge reaches practice too slowly](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/), [Preclinical results do not reproduce](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-reproducibility/), [The valley of death between lab and product](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-translational-valley/)

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