Precision Cancer Medicine group awarded funding as part of the North-South Research Programme

Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD have awarded €1.3m to seven collaborative research projects led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) under the North-South Research Programme. 

The projects were among 62 successful applications for research collaborations between academics and institutions in Ireland and in Northern Ireland which have been awarded a total of €37.3 million under the first funding call for the programme.

The North-South Research Programme is a collaborative scheme funded through the Government’s Shared Island Fund. It is being administered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

The RCSI and QUB-led projects were funded under Strand I: Bilateral researcher-researcher projects. The research spans fields including obesity, cancer, epilepsy, medical education, respiratory research and regenerative medicine:

The PCMG award will see Professor Annette Byrne collaborate with Dr Karl Butterworth (QUB) to develop and validate CT based radiomic signatures for the early detection of colorectal cancer liver metastasis and post-treatment disease recurrence

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