Dublin Centre for Clinical Research
The Dublin Centre for Clinical Research will be built on the grounds of St James's Hospital by 2009. The Facility involves a collaboration of the three Dublin medical schools at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland and their affiliated teaching hospitals, coordinated through the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre.
What kind of work will be conducted there?
The Centre will provide patients with access to the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, neuro-psychiatric disorders and infectious diseases such as HIV.
It will also connect with new and emerging facilities at other Dublin teaching hospitals through the establishment of a city-wide clinical research network. This network will facilitate appropriately powered population-based research into clinical, immunological, genetic, genomic and proteomic aspects of disease.
The facility will leverage existing expertise and synergies between basic and clinical scientists to develop the capacity for advanced therapeutics including both cell-based and molecular therapies involving RNAi (for viral disease and cancer) and dendritic cell therapy (for cancer and autoimmune disease).
Which facilities will be on offer?
To facilitate cell and molecular-based therapeutics, facilities will include isolation rooms equipped for gene therapy, apheresis and retransfusion.
The Centre will link directly with the National Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging.
Academic contact
Prof Dermot Kelleher, Head of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Gastroenterologist, St James's Hospital, Dublin
Institute of Molecular Medicine
St James's Hospital
St James's Street
Dublin
E
medicine@tcd.ie