TCD Medicine Professor Spearheads Successful €20 million Award for new Clinical Research Centre

Posted on: 05 July 2006

An initiative led by Trinity College’s Professor of Clinical Medicine, Professor Dermot Kelleher, for a major clinical research centre at St James’s Hospital and a cross-city clinical research network has been awarded multi-million euro funding by the Wellcome Trust and Health Research Board (HRB). In a highly competitive bid by academic institutions in the UK and Ireland, Professor Kelleher’s successful proposal was awarded the multi-million grant.

The new clinical research centre will provide access to the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, neuropsychiatric disorder and infectious diseases. It will also connect with new and emerging facilities at other Dublin teaching hospitals through the establishment of a citywide clinical research network coordinated by the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre, which is being established to help ensure a greater number of patients can benefit from clinical research in the most cost effective manner.