Good luck to the Macmillan AOAU Therapies Team at Velindre Cancer Centre in the Macmillan awards tomorrow night! 🤞 Pob lwc i Dîm Therapïau AOAU Macmillan yn Canolfan Ganser Felindre yn seremoni gwobrau Macmillan nos yfory 🤞 | Macmillan Cymru Wales

"I have had a lot of mischievous co-workers over the years so I just assumed it was one of them having a prank and I just went back to sleep." #NobelPrize laureate David MacMillan just couldn't believe that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - he even bet his co-laureate Ben List a thousand dollars that this wasn't happening. He spoke with us right after a celebratory meeting with his research group where they drank champagne and spoke about science for an hour. Take a listen: | No

Today we are celebrating our founder Douglas Macmillan’s birthday with this new film, featuring recently rediscovered archive material about Macmillan. In 1911 Douglas founded the organisation that would later become Macmillan Cancer Support, after receiving a gift of £10 from his father, who was dying of cancer. Throughout the decades, we have always worked to improve the lives of people living with cancer. Two years after being founded, in 1913, we helped around 60 people. Today we help millio