Deal offers hope of ‘tailor-made’ cancer drugs

A UNIVERSITY has signed a licensing agreement with a new Irish biotech company to develop ‘tailor-made’ drugs that could give new hope to cancer patients.

University College Cork (UCC) was due to announce the deal with Cork-based Lee Oncology Ltd this morning.

It will involve the commercial development of potential new cancer drugs developed by a UCC research group led by Professor Anita Maguire, the director of the university’s Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility.