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    • Irish Cancer Society announces Researcher of the Year
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Read the latest developments in cancer research from Ireland and around the world such as landmark publications, awards and other major achievements. We'll also announce our upcoming research events.

  • Irish Cancer Society Research Awards 2012 - details of the nine fellowships and scholarships awarded
     
  • Kerry sheep farmer raises over €20K for Irish Cancer Society research grants
     
  • Research funded by the Irish Cancer Society set to give hope to women resistant to breast cancer treatment Herceptin
     
  • Irish Cancer Society announces Dr. Róisín Dwyer as winner of first "Researcher of the Year" award
     
  • Research advances new strategy for breast cancer treatment using "gene therapy" 
     
  • Research reveals new targets in Lung Cancer
     
  • Research to develop first blood test for bowel cancer

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Success in prostate cancer research.

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How research we've funded have made a difference in leukaemia treatments.

From bench to bedside...

The Irish Cancer Society Research Fellowship will allow me to establish myself as a forerunner in the field of cancer specific immune responses in Ireland, and will give me the opportunity to translate my research from bench to bedside.

Dr. Gregor Kijanka

Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University

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