Cancer researchers in the north-east of England will use the most advanced equipment after receiving funding of more than �1m. Grants from charities will be used to equip the �11m Northern Institute for Cancer Research Paul O'Gorman Building, in Newcastle.
It will be fitted with equipment for analysis of the genes and protein molecules involved in cancer.
Scientists say the centre will be a focus for cutting edge research.
Scientists from four sites across Newcastle University have recently moved into the new centre, which was funded by the government, Cancer Research UK, the Foundation for Children with Leukaemia and Newcastle University.
Cancer Research UK is providing �500,000 for the equipment, the Leukaemia Research Fund and the North of England Children's Cancer Research Fund �300,000 each and the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Charity and Newcastle Healthcare Charity �150,000.
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Newcastle University head of cancer therapeutics, Professor Herbie Newell said: "Thanks to the partnership between local and national charities our laboratories are being fitted with the latest, most advanced equipment for fast-track analysis of the genes and protein molecules involved in cancer."
The centre, which takes its name from a 14-year-old boy who died from leukaemia, has been built next to Newcastle University's medical school.
The three-floor centre has four laboratories and brings together 125 researchers from different parts of the university.
Mr Newell said: "The new facilities will provide a major boost for our research.
"They will help scientists to collaborate more effectively and enable us to fast track new treatments from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside.
"Our aim is to identify two new targets for anti-cancer drugs each year and to take one treatment from development in the lab into clinical trials."
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