In collaboration with Makerere University College of Health Sciences, UCI plans to start offering master's degrees, doctoral programs and post-doctoral fellowships in oncology care.

[4] In October 2011, ground was broken for a three-story, integrated cancer training, research, and treatment facility, measuring nearly 16,700 square feet (1,550 m2).

[6][7][8] In November 2020, the UCI-Fred Hutch Collaboration completed the construction of the new ground-level of the facility, which houses administrative offices and a biorepository.

[12] In 1969, UCI expanded to a total of 40 beds, when the Solid Tumor Center was added to focus research on Kaposi's sarcoma and liver cancer.

[13] "Professor Charles Olweny, a Uganda researcher, interrupted his studies at NCI in the US and returned to become the first Ugandan director of UCI.

[27][28] In the interim, the Uganda Ministry of Health has arranged with the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, to offer teletherapy to some Ugandan patients.

The machine was purchased at a cost of €642,000 (more than UShs2.7 billion), contributed by the government of Uganda and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

[31][32] In February 2020, UCI commissioned a new Bhabhatron II Cancer Therapy Machine, donated to Uganda by the government of India.

Also in 2018, Samta Memorial Foundation, an Indian-based non-government organization donated a mobile mammography unit that is now in use at UCI.

[33] In October 2023, Madhusudan Agrawal, Uganda's honorary council to India, based in Mumbai donated a second mobile cancer screening van to UCI.