The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr David Grant has been honoured by China’s Capital Medical University in recognition of the two institutions’ pioneering cancer research partnership.
Cardiff and Capital Medical have been working together for several years on a new approach to breast and prostate cancer.
Six Capital Medical research fellows have been to Cardiff and 14 papers have been written as a result. The researchers have been working on the metastasis of breast and prostate cancer- how the disease spreads around the body from original tumour.
Now Capital Medical University has made Dr Grant an international advisor- the first person from the UK to be honoured in this way.
The ceremony, held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, was attended by representatives of the British Embassy and the British Council of China. Dr Grant received the award from the Chairperson of the Board at Capital Medical University, Li Ming.
A further agreement has also been signed between the two Universities, allowing for 20 more scholars to come to Cardiff over the next four years, funded by Albert Hung, the Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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