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Models to enable precision oncology

Double viva

Invisible Spectrum 5 year celebration

Congratulations Dr. McElroy

SBI & Breakthrough open-day

Congratulations Dr. Devoy

Congratulations Dr. Kinsella!

AI webinar

SBI Oral Presentation Skills Training

Scientific Advisory Board meeting 2024

Congratulations Dr. Mitchelson

The Lancet 2024 Series on menopause

Irish Cancer Society Awards 2024

Congratulations to Arif Jahangir on winning the 2024 Irish Cancer Society Award for "PhD of the Year"

POI Team-meeting 2024

Congratulations Dr. Kreileder

HRCI 2024 Position Paper

Congratulations, Dr. McCarthy

Enabling Precision Oncology in Irish Healthcare

Invisible Spectrum 4

QBI/SBI Symposium on Molecular Networks of Cancer and Other Diseases

Royal Society: Machine learning and AI in biological science, drug discovery and medicine

Decoding Life: Conversations with a Computational Biologist

POI features in the "Decoding Life" podcast

Invisible Spectrum poster presentation

Scientific Advisory Board meeting 2023

POI featured as SFI case study

Prof. Helen Roche appointed as interim Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact

ESB Science Blast 2023

ESB Science Blast has returned as in-person event this year so obviously we couldn't miss it!

POI team meeting 2023

Choirs for Cancer 2023

Choirs for Cancer returns, bigger than ever. Join us on World Cancer Day (Saturday, 4th February) in UCD for live choir performances and speeches, all in honour and dedication to those whose lives have been affected by cancer.

POI & AstraZeneca open day

POI will be hosting a virtual "open day" event with our research partners at AstraZeneca

POI Research Showcase

Come on out to our FREE POI Research Showcase on Thursday 22nd September 2022!

Precision Cancer Treatment the Focus of a New Science on Screen Documentary

‘The People There to Catch Us’ tells the story of Tom Hope and Rachel O’Mahony, two cancer survivors who work alongside researchers at POI, to help improve the lives of others living with the disease.

POI researchers successful in SFI Frontiers for the Future funding awards

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

Galway research community gathers to celebrate the journey of POI researcher Prof. Afshin Samali

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.

DevelopMed MSCA COFUND Call 3 Now Open!

Call 3 of System Biology Ireland's DevelopMed MSCA COFUND Programme is open for applications. The closing date is 25 June 2023.

POI team members take home awards at IACR Conference 2022 in Cork

The 58th Irish Association for Cancer Research was held at the Radisson Hotel in Little Island in Cork, from Wednesday 30th March to Friday 1st April 2022, back in person after moving online in 2021 due to the pandemic.

POI research team meets in person for the first time in over two years

The entire Precision Oncology Ireland team met in person recently for the first time in more than two years, as they held their team meeting at the Radisson Hotel in Cork on the 29th March 2022

SBI researchers embark on ground breaking clinical trial

In what is being hailed as a “milestone achievement,” a mathematical modelling system developed by Systems Biology Ireland will be used as a basis for treating pancreatic cancer patients in a Phase II clinical trial in the United States.

POI program announces a new research project studying childhood blood cancers

Precision Oncology Ireland is happy to announce a new project focused on using precision oncology approaches to Childhood Blood Cancers. The project is due to commence later this month.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme ‘DevelopMed’ Call 2 Now Open!

Call 2 of the ‘Developing the Next Generation of Research Leaders in Precision Oncology’ (DevelopMed) Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme is now officially open and runs until 30 November 2021.

POI Communications Training: Breaking the Fourth Wall

On the 25th and 26th of May 2021, POI hosted a Communications Training workshop, in collaboration with Breakthrough Cancer Research. The two-day, web-based workshop provided cancer researchers insights into communicating their science using accessible language.

POI Industry webinar ''Spatial Transcriptomics: Painting a Molecular Picture'

POI are hosting an Industry Webinar entitled 'Spatial Transcriptomics: Painting a Molecular Picture' which will take place on Tuesday the 16th of March from 2 - 4pm GMT via Zoom. Further details about the event and how to register can be found here.

Choirs for Cancer 2021

To mark World Cancer Day, Choirs for Cancer 2021 goes live on YouTube with our annual show on Thursday, February 4th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm (GMT).

Invisible Spectrum - Breaking down barriers to STEM participation in Ireland

Dr. Fiona Lanigan recounts the successful ’Invisible Spectrum’ programme run by POI for Science Foundation Ireland Science Week 2020.

Launch of a new EU-funded training programme, ‘DevelopMed’

€1.32 million in EU funding to support training the next generation of research leaders in precision oncology, within the MSCA COFUND Programme, ‘DevelopMed’

POI Governance Committee meet for first time

The POI team are privileged to have the guidance of our Governance Committee, who met for the first time on Friday 27th November

Irish breast cancer study highlights potential new treatment approach

A new study by Irish researchers may pave the way to developing a more effective means of treating patients with the most common form of breast cancer. The promising findings are described in a paper published in the leading journal “Cancer Research”, in a study headed by researchers from RCSI and UCD, and supported by the Irish Cancer Society and Precision Oncology Ireland

POI Public talk series for Cancer Week Ireland

To mark Cancer Week Ireland which runs from Monday 28th of September until Sunday 4th of October, POI collaborated with our charity partners and patient advocacy groups on a number of public research talks.

Researchers and Patients in Conversation

POI has collaborated with our charity partner Breakthrough Cancer Research to create some video clips featuring patient advocates interviewing cancer researchers, aimed at demystifying precision oncology for a lay audience.

Analysis Platform to support POI research

Public talk on Lobular Breast Cancer

POI joined our charity partner, the Irish Cancer Society, to host our first public talk featuring breast cancer researcher Dr. Damir Vareslija from RCSI.

Industry Seminar - Prof. Helen McCarthy

Precision Oncology Ireland hosted our first Industry Research Seminar on Tuesday 9th June, showcasing the ground-breaking work of one of our partners, Prof. Helen McCarthy of Phion Therapeutics

Research Seminars: a busy start to the year!

POI hosted seminars by a number of prestigious international speakers in the early months of 2020, before a pandemic and lockdown moved all of our activities online.

Choirs for Cancer

A visit to ESB Science Blast 2020

POI went along to Science Blast Dublin this year to see what all the fuss was about!

POI attend Irish Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting

Following our POI team meeting on the 25th February, many of the team remained in Galway for the Irish Association of Cancer Research (IACR) Annual Meeting, a highlight in the calendars of cancer researchers around Ireland.

POI and CÚRAM partner for Science on Screen

POI has partnered with CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices at NUI Galway and Galway Film Centre, in this year’s Science on Screen programme, which will commission a short scientific documentary focused on science and cancer research.

Entire POI team meets in Galway prior to IACR Conference

The entire POI team met in Galway on 25th February 2020, just prior to the annual IACR Conference. This gathering gave the team an opportunity to discuss progress thus far and plans for the future.

Nationwide visits POI

On Friday 7th February 2020, the RTÉ programme Nationwide broadcasted a segment relating to the ground-breaking work of Precision Oncology Ireland in fast-tracking the delivery of precision medicine in cancer.

Genomics Summit co-hosted in Dublin by GMI and UCD

Members of the POI team attended the Genomics Summit, held in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on the 23rd January 2020, which was co-hosted by POI partner Genomics Medicine Ireland, and UCD Research and Innovation.

Launch of Precision Oncology Ireland

More than 90 scientists, cancer patients, academic, charity and industry representatives gathered on Tuesday, November 26th, 2019, to launch the new Precision Oncology Ireland research programme at University College Dublin.