Cluster 1 Health

The Health Cluster covers the following 6 areas:

Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
Living and working in a health-promoting environment
Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Ensuring access to innovative and high-quality health care
Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions
Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry

THE TEAM

Recipe for success: securing funding for agri-food research. This project received €2.1 million from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Cofund programme, to support the creation of this postdoctoral fellowship scheme, with a further €3.1 million coming from Teagasc.

Changing the lives of patients with brai...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Apr 17, 2023

Cluster 1 Health

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of adult primary brain cancer, for which there is currently no cure. Discover how the team behind the GLIOTRAIN project won #Horizon2020 funding to tackle the disease.

Rockfield set to disrupt global tube fee...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Mar 23, 2023

Cluster 1 Health

As a person with cystic fibrosis, Tomás Thompson was acutely aware of the challenges of tube feeding and how much they affected patients’ quality of life. “Over the past 40 years, lots of medical devices have changed hugely,” explains Thompson, founder, and CEO of Rockfield Medical Devices.

GENEGUT project aims to transform treatm...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 22, 2022

Cluster 1 Health

Osteoarthritis cure is the goal for EU-f...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 20, 2022

Cluster 1 Health

Horizon Europe funding to support youth ...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 7, 2022

Cluster 1 Health

Irish researchers secure EU funding to d...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Aug 22, 2022

Cluster 1 Health

Irish health researchers secure highest ...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Jul 5, 2022

Cluster 1 Health

AVECTAS leading the way in non-viral cel...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Oct 12, 2021

Cluster 1 Health

Irish Clinical trials funded in Horizon ...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 8, 2021

Cluster 1 Health

Five artificial intelligence (AI) projec...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 7, 2021

Cluster 1 Health

Five AI projects with Irish coordinators and partners that address topics including -E-smart home assistants, care for cancer patients and attempt to reduce sepsis-related mortality in babies.

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HORIZON EUROPE IN IRELAND

Cluster 1 Health

THE TEAM

Dr Martha Cahill

National Contact Point for Cluster 1 Health

Dr Patricia Clarke

National Delegate for Horizon Europe Cluster 1 - Health

Dr Irene Castellano Pellicena

National Contact Point for Cluster 1 – Health

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Horizon Europe funding to support youth ...

Irish researchers secure EU funding to d...

Irish health researchers secure highest ...

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Irish Clinical trials funded in Horizon ...

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