Twenty-two “high end jobs” are being created at a pioneering new medical research centre in Derry.
The Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine – the only one of its kind on the island of Ireland – is based at the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) at Altnagelvin Hospital.
The £11.5 million facility is a collaborative project between the University of Ulster’s Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, C-TRIC and the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
Dr Tony Bjourson from the University of Ulster, outlined what the centre means for Derry:
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