Project aims to save children from leukaemia

A TEAM of scientists, physicists and engineers at the University of Limerick is working on a new approach to help save children with leukaemia.

At present it can take weeks for cancer specialists to come up with a proper level of treatment for young victims of the disease.

The UL project, led by Professor Mark Davies and Dr Tara Dalton, originally from Castletroy and now living in Crecora, introduces engineering solutions to a greater extent into medicine. They are overseeing the research at the Stokes Institute of mechanical engineering in UL.