Our mission is to develop a more effective, targeted treatments and tests for cancer through an increased understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the initiation of each patient’s cancer, its spread, and its response or resistance to treatment.
On the 12th March, I first became aware of this new term, social distancing. Little did I think when I left the office that day, that I would not return for an unknown number of weeks. It was not difficult to adapt to a changed work schedule. Rather than a twice-weekly 5.15 am rise to catch an early morning train to Dublin, I now spread my working...
The new Health Research Regulations (HRR), August 2018 (part of the Irish Data Protection Act, May 2018), in response to the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) require that patients give explicit consent for the use of their non-personal data in new medical research projects. However, a unique feature of the HRR is that if a research project is considered...
Ireland’s new Health Research Regulations (August 2018) are part of the Data Protection Act (May 2018), enacted in response to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) of the European Union. The new Regulations will safeguard data privacy for patients who, having been fully informed, give consent to have their blood, cancer tissue and associated coded...
