New Limerick cancer research centre to take ‘different approach’ to cancer care

It is estimated that one in two Irish adults will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime

A research centre at University of Limerick is using personalised digital medicine to transform cancer care and improve outcomes for patients. Picture: Alan Place

A new cancer research centre at the University of Limerick (UL) is to take “an entirely different approach” to the treatment of the disease by using personalised digital medicine to improve cancer care and outcomes.

The Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre (LDCRC), a collaboration between UL and University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will bring experts across the fields of software, engineering, maths and health, and lean on the industry knowledge of several multinationals, including Dell Technologies and Becton Dickenson, to develop technologies which could provide earlier and more accurate cancer diagnosis and help in the discovery of new drugs.