In a final tribute, the University will officially open the Richard Doll Building later this year, bringing together the Clinical Trial Service Unit, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, and other units.

“Sir Richard will be remembered as an inspiration and mentor to generations of scientists, a community in which he loved to spend his time long into what for most of us would have been retirement.
It is fitting therefore that the University will shortly be opening the Richard Doll Building, where work on population studies, influenced by his visionary approach to the discipline, will continue to establish reliable assessments of the causes, prevention and treatment of cancers, heart attacks, strokes and other major diseases.”

Dr John Hood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford