Tuesday, 9 December 2025
🎄 Final Limerick Cancer Research Meeting of the Year 🎄
We’re looking forward to hosting our final Limerick Cancer Research Meeting of the year tomorrow at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) from 2.30pm
We have a packed agenda with speakers from across UL and UHL and if you have any questions, please reach out to us at ldcrc@ul.ie.
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Tea/Coffee/Refreshments upon arrival | |
| 15:00 – 15:05 | Opening address | Professor Ruth Clifford Clinical Director of LDCRC |
| 15:05 – 15:20 | In Vitro Models: How de novo Collagen Breaks the Glass Ceiling | Dr Eliza Brett Chemical Sciences Dept, UL |
| 15:20 – 15:30 | What does OECI Accreditation mean for Cancer Patients in the Mid-West | Valerie Madigan UHL |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | Cancer Research and OECI | Professor Ruth Clifford |
| 15:40 – 15:55 | Modelling CLL Treatment Dynamics Through Knowledge Graph Embedding | Dr Meghana Kshirsagar Dept of Computer Sciences & Information Systems, UL |
| 15:55 - 16:10 | A Community Detection Algorithm for Identifying Survival-Relevant Subgroups in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | Dr Gauri Vaidya, National Kidney Disease Surveillance System, UL |
| 16:10 – 16:25 | UHL Lab Update | Dr Hilary O Leary, Clinical Director for Pathology Laboratories UHL |
| 16:25 – 16:40 | Health Research Institute (HRI) Update | Professor Alan Donnelly, Director of HRI, UL |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Questions and Discussions |