HEA North South Research Programme Award

AICRI receives its foundation stone funding in March 2022

It's a Strand III Award under the Higher Education Authority (HEA) North South Research Programme. The award is funded by the Shared Island Fund in the Department of the Taoiseach. It allows us to train 10 PhD students and 10 post-doctoral research fellows in ten academic institutions across the island of Ireland (AICRIstart). Value of award: €4 Million.

Under the same HEA North South Research Programme, two additional large-scale AICRI-linked cancer research awards (circa. €4 million each) were announced in the areas of eHealth - An All-Island eHealth Hub for Cancer (led by Prof. Aedin Culhane, University of Limerick and Prof. Mark Lawler, Queen’s University Belfast) and liquid biopsies - All-Ireland Cancer Liquid Biopsies Consortium (CLuB) (led by Prof. Lorraine O’Driscoll, Trinity College Dublin and Prof. Paul Mullan, Queen’s University Belfast).