The Lunaphore Immuno-Oncology Grant Program has been designed with the intention of helping in the research of immuno-oncology by providing innovative instruments based on a microfluidic technology to perform mIF staining.  Dr. Rahman and Chowdhury Arif Jahangir won 1st prize for a project titled “Exploration of the Interplay between Master Transcriptional Regulators and Immune Cells …

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International Hundred K+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC) – one of their inaugural funding awards to D. Hughes as PI: ‘Exploring the role of genetically determined BMI in infancy, childhood and early adulthood on colorectal cancer development in later life’ (2021-mid2022; 18 months), $145,300 Visiting short term scientific mission awarded to Mr Petr Holý (PhD student in the Biomedical …

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The CBT laboratory is delighted to congratulate Adele on her success in obtaining a PhD scholarship from the Irish Cancer Society to undertake translational research in ovarian cancer with Dr. Antoinette Perry. Ovarian cancer has poor prognosis and shockingly low levels of publications relative to other cancers (despite it being the 4th most common female …

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Ireland’s first national preclinical imaging centre (NPIC) will provide enhanced research data to inform new clinical trials and improve patient outcomes. It is being established through a €3.4 million award from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under their research infrastructure programme.   The Centre will be led by Professor Annette Byrne (RSCI) in partnership with Professor William Gallagher …

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common diagnosed cancer worldwide and the fourth most common cause of cancer death. It is a major cancer type expected to be particularly related to disturbances in the gut microbiome constituents, but there is a need to establish information on how gut microbes may influence disease course and …

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Niamh Russell presented the OPTi-PREDICT teams poster titled ‘Refining Treatment Recommendations for Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients using a Novel Protein-Based Prognostic Signature: The OnocMasTR Assay’ at IACR. This was a very well attended session with over 150 posters presented. The poster describes the ongoing antibody validation work, where two markers show useful prognostic ability, validated …

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Romina Silva was awarded the inaugural Prof. Patrick Johnston IACR Award for excellence in cancer research outreach in the annual IACR conference (2019). This award was given based on her lay talk entitled “Understanding therapeutic resistance – following cancer’s breadcrumb trail”. She was also awarded an IACR AOIFA Seed Funding award (6,000€). She will use …

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14th February 2019: Dr Antoinette Perry receiving official award of Commercialisation Fund from Deirdre Glenn, Director, Lifesciences & Food Commercialisation at Enterprise Ireland for project entitled, “epiCaPture: a urine test to detect aggressive prostate cancer”.

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Prencipe who received Science Foundation Ireland’s Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) for her project entitled ‘Targeting co-regulators of the androgen receptor as a novel therapeutic approach for prostate and breast cancer’. The SIRG awards help early-career researchers develop the essential skills and experience necessary to lead Ireland’s future research in areas such …

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Alex was one of three Irish Cancer Society-funded scholars who were shortlisted for an Irish Cancer Society Research Award, where she presented a lay version of her research to a mixed audience judged by a patient panel. To-date, Alex has computationally identified changes in activity of thousands of enhancer regulatory elements in prostate cancer. Her …

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