The Caroline Foundation has been awarded €800,000 for breast cancer treatment research.
The award was funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Puma Biotechnology and will go towards advancing cancer research skills in DCU.
SFI provided €400,000 of the funding and the rest was provided by Puma Biotechnology, a biopharma company that specialises in the acquisition and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
The Caroline Foundation was established in memory of Greystones woman Caroline Dwyer-Hickey who died in 2013 aged 35 after a nine-year battle with cancer. Caroline was a patient of Professor John Crown from the time of her being diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2004, and was a public advocate for cancer research.