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Professor T.J. McElwain as elected nominees of the Academic Board. Dr. Ott, Dr. Jarman and Dr. Webb completed their term of office as elected nominees on 30th September, 1987.
Mr. J. Alexander-Williams was nominated to the Committee as a representative of the Royal College of Surgeons. Miss P. Cunningham was nominated to the Committee as a representative of the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Obituaries
The Committee was saddened to note the death in October of Sir Peter Medawar OM, CH, FRS whose many and outstanding achievements are legion, and who found time to serve for several years on the Institute's Committee of Management.
We received with sadness the news of the death in May of Dr. Cecil Leese, a senior scientist in the Institute from 1956 to 1984.
In early July the Institute received with sadness the news of the death of Professor Bede Morris, the recently appointed Visiting Haddow Fellow to the Institute; and of Dr. Michael Alderson, Professor of Epidemiology in the Institute from 1975 to 1981.
The CRC/ICR Joint Scientific Committee
The new Joint Scientific Committee came into being this year and met in December and March. Professor K.D. Bagshawe chairs the Committee whose membership is:-
Dr. T.A. Connors, Professor H.J. Evans, Dr. P.B. Garland, Dr. J.B. Gurdon, Professor M.J. Peckham, Professor J.F. Smyth, Professor L. Wolpert and Dr. J.A. Wyke.
In its first meetings the Committee has tried to take an overview of the Institute's work and prospects for the future. In this respect,
and with a change of Director in view, its advice is extremely valuable, both to the Director and to the Committee of Management. It is the Committee's opinion that the Institute, having established an excellent basic science base in the Chester Beatty Laboratories, must now concentrate on strengthening its clinical research work at Sutton. In particular, it has emphasised what is clear to us all, that a strong relationship with the Royal Marsden Hospital is vital to the Institute's future prospects. The Institute is unique in being by far the largest cancer research institute in the country associated with a specialist cancer hospital.
Sutton Development
The Institute has, over the past few years, considered it necessary to upgrade its Fulham Road laboratories and this programme is now virtually complete.
A similar programme of upgrading is now required at Sutton where, apart from the Haddow and CRC Laboratories, all the laboratory buildings are of poor quality. Appraisal is in hand to look at the building options but it is already clear that, because of the large sums of money required, a phased development over many years will be inevitable. The Institute has, as explained last year, begun to put money aside in a Development Fund. At the appropriate time, and in consultation with the CRC and the RMH, we shall be considering the feasibility of a targeted public appeal to raise funds for the capital programme.
The DHSS Cancer Screening Evaluation Unit at The Institute of Cancer Research
It gave me particular personal pleasure that on 25th November, 1987, the day of our 1987 Annual General Meeting, Mrs. Edwina Currie, the Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State (Health), came to the Institute at Sutton to open the DHSS
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