First All-Ireland Cancer Network, AllCaN established to support and facilitate knowledge sharing between exemplary teams in institutions across the island of Ireland, who are taking on less survivable cancers. The successful awardee will receive a €1 million investment for researchers, clinicians, patients, and industry to work together to significantly improve survival rates.   The first of these AllCaN Grants focuses on oesophageal cancer to improve early detection and outcomes for patients with, or at risk of, developing the disease.
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Professor Roisin M. Connolly appointed to Professor Gerald O’Sullivan Chair In Cancer Research to lead cancer research in South West Region.

We award our first Musgrave PhD Scholarship in Trinity College Dublin to Fiona O’Connell for a project looking at how obesity effects the response of the immune system by looking at how adipose (fat) tissue taken from obese and non-obese patients effects how different cells from the immune system grow and work. Her project will then look at whether healthy dietary fats effect how the immune system responds to radiation treatment and if these fats could be used to change that response.

Breakthrough-funded researchers are the first in the world to show that the bacteria in your body can both positively and negatively affect cancer treatment.

CCRC researchers receive the 2013 Pfizer Innovation through team work award for their device to treat inoperable lung cancer.

Our founder Prof. Gerry O’Sullivan passed away in 2012 but left behind the legacy of a strong research vision and team. “He laid an incredibly strong foundation and on that foundation great things are being built.” Dr. Derek Power.

Helped host the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy of Cancer, bringing world-class experts together to share their findings. “Right now a revolutionary in biology and medicine is occurring. New miraculous techniques are being built and developed for treatment of cancer based on our deep understanding of what is wrong with the cancer cell.….I wasn’t prepared for the magnitude of the excellence and the depth of the expertise that’s here in the Cork Cancer Centre.” Prof Albert Deisseroth, Food and Drug Administration – USA and former President of the Sydney Kimmel Cancer Centre

Irish Medicines Board’s (IMB) approval to commence the first clinical trial in Ireland using gene delivery.

Our Founder Prof. Gerald C. O’Sullivan is elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Cork commences a colorectal screening clinic, the first in Ireland, to screen high risk patients. The clinic also gives opportunity to research diet and lifestyle influences.

In 1999 Cork Cancer Research Centre was formed with support from Atlantic Philanthropies and Irish Government funding to create a foundation structure to link clinicians working in the Cork Hospitals with researchers working in University College Cork.