What We Do
GREAT MINDS
Funding Cancer Research
Your donation is used to support cancer research in Ireland. We fund hospital and university-based cancer researchers.
A particular focus is the funding of early-stage cancer researchers in Dublin City University and University College Dublin in order to help them develop a strong research foundation so that they may establish a long-term cancer research career.
CCRT also partner with the Irish Research Council in supporting PhD and post-doctoral research students through their enterprise partnership schemes. Leveraging of this funding allows us to support even more researchers.
Funding a researcher not only includes their salary but also the research materials required to conduct the project as well as a travel stipend to ensure that their findings can be disseminated to a worldwide audience at cancer research conferences.
Cancer patients in Ireland for whom the mainstream cancer treatment programme is not enough must be able to trust that the options available here are as advanced and as groundbreaking as anywhere else in the world. We can only get that by having an active and well-resourced research programme here that is working with collaborators worldwide. The CCRT clinical team and our researchers do just that.
Our Partner
The Caroline Foundation
The Caroline Dwyer-Hickey Cancer Research Foundation (The Caroline Foundation) was recently established in memory of Caroline Dwyer-Hickey who passed away on 25 March 2013 aged 35 after a nine year battle with cancer. The purpose of the Foundation is to fund a research scientist to work under Professor John Crown in his Dublin-based clinical cancer research programme.
Caroline was a patient of Prof. Crown’s from the time of her being diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2004. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy arrested the development of the disease but in February 2008 the cancer was once again active. From then to the time of her death Caroline courageously participated in a number of clinical trials both in Ireland and the US- in some cases was the first in Ireland to do so. She was fiercely determined to do whatever was within her power to beat her cancer. Each trial programme bought Caroline extra time. She firmly believed that research will one day find a cure.
The Caroline Foundation is built on, and is testimony to, that hope and faith in the work of The Clinical Cancer Research Trust (CCRT).
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You can make a donation by following the link below. Your support of CCRT enables our researchers to participate in and contribute to the world-wide war on cancer.