University of Galway researcher, Dr Catalina Vallejo Giraldo, whose work focuses on cancers of the brain, has been awarded a €1.5 million grant.
It's from a fund that's part of a European scheme that recognises talented early-career scientists.
The money is to be used to develop new targeted brain treatments.
Dr Vallejo Giraldo’s research focuses on developing a new therapy that uses soft gel to disrupt DNA repair in cancer cells.
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This approach bypasses a major cause of therapy failure by physically deforming cancer cells - preventing chemical resistance from forming.
