脑肿瘤是英国儿童癌症死亡的主要原因。越来越清楚的是，提高我们治愈儿童脑瘤儿童的能力并减少其所患疾病的能力，只有通过更好地了解这些目前难以治疗的各种肿瘤的生物学基础才能实现。儿童脑肿瘤研究中心的发展旨在应对这一挑战，现在将来自大学和诺丁汉大学医院各科室的八个部门的60多名研究人员联系起来，进行临床和科学研究，旨在增加我们开始使用这种知识来优化儿童和家庭的健康状况。
Brain tumours are the leading cause of childhood cancer deaths in the UK. It is increasingly clear that improving in our ability to cure children with brain tumours and reduce the considerable morbidity they suffer will only come through a better understanding of the underlying biology of these varied and presently difficult to treat tumours. The development of the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre set out to meet this challenge and now links over 60 researchers from eight departments across the University and Nottingham University Hospital Departments conducting clinical and scientific research directed at increasing our beginning to use this knowledge to optimize the health outcomes for the child and family.