College first in Europe with medical facility

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN has become the first academic institution in Europe to install technology with the potential to make a patient diagnosis 200 times faster than conventional technology.

The €2 million imaging and screening facility provides extremely advanced imaging of human cells and will accelerate drug discovery in cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Launched yesterday at TCD’s Institute of Molecular Medicine, based at St James’s Hospital, the high content analysis facility can generate several hundred items of scientific data from one cell. The technology focuses on how the human genome functions and its role in disease.