Visit by Minister for Health to Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Centre

On 26 June, Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, T.D., visited the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute (TSJCI) Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) to pass on her congratulations and support to the first and only CCC on the island of Ireland. This prestigious award from the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) is the culmination of almost a decade’s collaborative work at Ireland’s leading research university, Trinity College Dublin, and Dublin’s biggest hospital, St James’s Hospital.

In addition to its patient care and education, this designation recognises TSJCI at the forefront of cancer research in Ireland alongside other internationally leading CCCs, such as the two in the UK (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Manchester) and the Karolinska CCC in Sweden. 

Cancer liquid biopsies is a recognised priority area of research for TSJCI_CCC. This is greatly aided by the support of CLuB by the Government of Ireland’s North-South Research Programme, led by the Higher Education Authority.

Photo, left to right: Ms Sarah Wade, Project Lead, TSJCI; Ms Nicola Keohane, Young Onset Cancer Coordinator; Dr Patricia Doherty, OECI Coordinator & Senior Research Programme Officer, TSJCI; Ms Cathy Enright, Programme Manager, TSJCI; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Minister for Health; Ms Sharon Slattery, Director of Nursing, St James’s Hospital/TSJCI; Prof. John Kennedy, Medical Director, TSJCI; Ms Grainne Smith, PPP Lead, TSJCI;  Prof. Lorraine O’Driscoll, Research Director, TSJCI and Lead Investigator, CLuB; and Prof. Maeve Lowery, Academic Director, TSJCI.