The Irish Cancer Society's Summer Studentship programme offers undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake a cancer research project and to work with established researchers in high-quality academic environments.
Prof Peter O’Gorman, Director of Pathology and Consultant Haematologist and Prof Cathy Kelly, Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital were the recipients of the Irish Cancer Society Clinician Research Leadership Award in 2017 and 2018 (respectively).
The Roadmap provides the detail as to our funding calls for the next five years and earmarks a significant budget to support those research investments targeted at directly improving outcome for those affected by cancer in this country.
Little did Dr Arman Rahman realise when leaving Bangladesh to pursue a career as a cancer researcher 25 years ago that his journey would bring him full-circle to helping those from his native community in far-flung Ireland.
Sharing a line from a Rocky film or idolising a favourite footballer can often be just as important topics of conversation as discussing diagnoses and treatments, says Irish Cancer Society Peer Support Volunteer Fran McDermott.
For most of us thoughts of walking 500 miles stretch only as far as the famous Proclaimers song, but for Meath woman Ann Marie Grall that goal is all too real as she resumes a journey that began a decade ago.
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