On Thursday, 1st of March 2018, Alexandria University invited the participating Universities in the Egyptian cancer research network for a meeting at Radisson blue Hotel. The network comprised 20 Universities (governmental, private in addition to the Medical Military Academy). The meeting was attended by Prof. Dr. Dawlat El-Miligy, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, October 6 University and Dr. Mohamed Saeed Professor of Internal Medicine. The meeting started by a welcome speech from the Vice President of Alexandria University followed by panel discussion on research policy and strategy. Then Dr. Noha Awad the organizer of the meeting presented the achievements done by the network during the previous period. A closed discussion between the board of trustees and the executive committee was conducted to set the rules regulating research project submission through the network as well as the criteria of selection of the members of the scientific committee. Five new Universities joined the network in a signature ceremony. The main closing remarks was to launch a national project for cancer survey in Egypt shared by all the members of the network.