Glasgow University's £3.4M Boost To Create Medical Research Centre

The University of Glasgow has been awarded £3.4 million pounds to create a new research centre for precision medicine.

The funding will be used to tailor treatments to suit each patient rather then relying on one-size-fits-all therapies, that often don't work.

It's hoped it could help save the NHS money by providing the right care for the right outcome.

Professor Anna Dominiczak, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, said: 'The goal of precision medicine is to provide the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time, for the right cost and the right outcome. We now understand more about abnormalities in DNA and other molecules which occur in disease. This so-called 'molecular pathology' is revealing significant variation in diseases which by standard classifications, for example by a pathologist using a microscope, have been indistinguishable. So, for instance, we now know that pancreatic cancer is not just one disease but many different ones, potentially with different treatments.''

The Node will be based in the purpose-built Laboratory Medicine Building at The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and will enable scientists, pathologists and clinicians to collaborate with industry partners in developing new diagnostic tests.

Funding for six nodes across the UK was announced, with Glasgow receiving the largest single award.