On 10th May 2022, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, announced 76 grants valued at €53.7 million to support frontiers research across ten Higher Education Institutions through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), including POI researchers

In 1985, Afshin Samali arrived into Ireland as a refugee, having fled his home country of Iran, and knowing little about this small island nation on the western edge of Europe that would become his home. He would go on to become a Professor in NUI Galway, and a leading cancer biologist with a successful research career spanning over 30 years.

On World Refugee Day, Zarghona Hassani, a refugee from Afghanistan now settled in Ireland, tells the story of her journey, and her recent internship with Prof. Afshin Samali and Precision Oncology Ireland