LhARA is a ground-breaking biomedical initiative that will revolutionise cancer treatment. A consortium of researchers, clinicians, and engineers, brings together expertise from across the UK to build this world-leading research facility. LhARA will be a hybrid system in which a laser will produce protons and ions to drive a transformation in cancer care by delivering breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, and biology. LhARA is an important infrastructure project because it will create jobs, drive investment, and attract additional scientists from around the world to the UK. LhARA will catapult the UK to the front of the technological revolution taking place in radiobiology.

To realise the benefits of the LhARA intiative we need to:

• Demonstrate the feasibility of the laser-hybrid approach in a facility dedicated to biological research; and

• Create the national and international partnerships necessary for LhARA to become a multidisciplinary research centre of excellence in the UK.