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We’ll never stop researching

The Irish Cancer Society is the largest voluntary funder of cancer research in Ireland and we are committed to improving the lives of cancer patients in Ireland through research. The public donations that make all of our research possible allow us to fund the work of over 100 talented research professionals in top Irish institutions.
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Funding Calls

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Irish Cancer Society Cancer Research Networking Award 2025

Networking
Open call
Deadline: 26 June 2025
The Irish Cancer Society Networking Award offers all cancer researchers the opportunity to establish and strengthen collaborations and relationships with their cancer research peers. This programme will give academic researchers and clinical professionals the opportunity to learn about up-to-date cancer research, network and collaborate, and gain experience in research dissemination.
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Irish Cancer Society Ph.D. Scholarship Programme 2025

Scholarship
The purpose of this funding call is to offer excellent graduates the opportunity to conduct postgraduate training in cancer research, with a focus on our strategic priorities.
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Irish Cancer Society Summer Studentships 2025

Studentship
The aim of the Summer Studentships is to offer excellent undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct a cancer research project and to work with researchers in high-quality research environments. This programme will help students gain essential research experience at an early stage in their career path.
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How we decide what research to fund

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Public and patient involvement

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Our researchers

Learn more about our latest research and the researchers across the country who we fund to improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer.
Professor Aoife Lowery

Professor Aoife Lowery

Women’s Health Initiative and Clinician Researcher Leadership Award
Professor Aoife Lowery will be leading the extension of the Women’s Health Initiative to Galway, where they will not only assist in the recruitment of UCC’s LYSA clinical trial, but also carry out a study investigating cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients, facilitated by the buy-out time from the Clinician Research Leadership Award.
Professor Roisin Connolly, University College Cork

Professor Roisin Connolly, University College Cork

Women’s Health Initiative
Roisin will develop and coordinate a multi-disciplinary nurse-led survivorship clinic and symptom management pathway which integrates hospital and community services.
Professor Donal Brennan, University College Dublin

Professor Donal Brennan, University College Dublin

Women’s Health Initiative
The overall aim is to improve health and wellbeing for women cancer survivors at all stages of their cancer journey, by effectively managing menopausal symptoms, sexual dysfunction, mood and sleep disturbance.
Dr Daniel Angelov

Dr Daniel Angelov

Translational Research Scholarship 2021
Daniel’s PhD project aims to improve treatment of a rare and incurable form of blood cancer call follicular lymphoma by testing a promising new drug. Not only does he hope that these treatments will be more effective, but that patients will suffer from less treatment-associated side effects.
Martin Brennan

Martin Brennan

Translational Research Scholarship 2021
Martin Brennan’s research hopes to help women avoid the devastating loss of fertility that often comes with treatment for endometrial cancer.
Adele Connor, University College Dublin

Adele Connor, University College Dublin

Translational Research Scholarship 2020
Adele has started her PhD research in ovarian cancer, titled, 'Investigating the heterogeneic biology of ovarian cancer metastases by high-resolution imaging to inform novel combination therapies'.
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Dr Shirley Potter

Dr Shirley Potter

Clinician Research Leadership Award
Dr Potter is carrying out research into using less extensive surgery for melanoma patients, resulting in less scarring and postoperative pain, as well as faster recovery and hopefully the same survival outcomes.
Dr Graeme Sullivan

Dr Graeme Sullivan

Translational Research Fellowship 2021
Graeme’s research is focused on relapsed multiple myeloma, looking firstly to understand why existing treatments aren’t always effective, identifying new targets, and testing new drug combinations to target them, translating into improved survival and QOL for patients.
Jennifer Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Fitzpatrick

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Jennifer’s project is titled, “The development, implementation and evaluation of a health behaviour change intervention for adolescents who have completed active cancer treatment”
Sophie Mulcahy Symmons

Sophie Mulcahy Symmons

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Sophie’s research project will aim at promoting HPV cervical screening by co-designing an educational intervention to overcome barriers and promote screening uptake in under-represented groups.
Chloe Moore

Chloe Moore

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Chloe’s research project is titled, “ ENHANCE- EnhaNcing Health literAcy amoNg Cancer caregivErs”. The aim of this research is to develop and pilot test an intervention for cancer caregivers designed to increase their health literacy levels.
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