Northern Ireland (UKN)

Population per km2 - 138

Regional website: The Public Health Agency

Northern Ireland has a population of 1.8 million. In Northern Ireland personalised medicine is an area of substantial and rapidly growing focus which benefits from the core strengths that underpin the region’s health and social care and research and development infrastructure.

The Queen’s University hosts the Precision Medicine Centre (PMC) of Excellence, which will provide the necessary infrastructure to meet the increasing demands in the changing field of healthcare and industry in terms of technologies and expertise. The Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, which undertakes cutting edge stratified medicine research is a collaborative project between the University of Ulster's Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, C-TRIC (the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre) and the Western Health and Social Care Trust. The Centre for Personalised Medicine and Clinical Decision Making (INTERREG VA Programme) is also located at Ulster University. This cross-border collaborative project, led by Stratified Medicine Ulster University includes 13 partner organisations.

Is the region looking for international/European/interregional collaboration opportunities? 

Yes - We are always open to the possibility of international/ European/ interregional collaboration opportunities

Policy documents

1. Regional: Research for Better Health & Social Care A Strategy for Health & Social Care Research and Development in Northern Ireland (2016-2025)  

2. Regional: Health and Wellbeing 2026 - Delivering Together (Department of Health)

3. Regional: Systems, Not Structures - Changing Health and Social Care - Full Report

4. Regional: Precision Medicine in Northern Ireland  

Policy document (RIS3): Yes 

Policy document PM@RIS3: Yes

Major initiatives

1. Centre of Excellence Precision Medicine Centre 

2. Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine 

3. Centre for Personalised Medicine - Clinical Decision Making and Patient Safety (CPM)

4. SAPHIRe 

5. The Northern Ireland Biobank

6. Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory molecular diagnostics lab

7. The Health Innovation Research Alliance Northern Ireland (HIRANI)

8. PASSION-HF - PAtient Self-care uSIng eHealth In chrONic Heart Failure 

9. EUROCAT: European surveillance of congenital anomalies 

10. The Ireland/ Northern Ireland Cross-Border Cooperation Observatory

11. AMPLIFY 

12. Cross-Border Healthcare Intervention Trials in Ireland Network (CHITIN)

13. INTERREG IV Putting Patients First

14. A Cross Border Proposal for a New Eastern Corridor Medical Engineering Centre 

15. Platforms for Ageing Community Engagement - Exchange and Enterprise 

16. Conversational Interfaces Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing of People in Sparsely Populated Areas

17. NW Healthy Living & Community Gardens/Allotments Project

18.  Peripheral Assisted Living 

19. Smart sENsor Devices fOr rehabilitation and Connected health 

Is the region represented in: Horizon2020; Regional Smart Specialisation Strategy Platforms/Partnerships (RIS3); EIT Health/InnoStars/Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS); other?

1. Horizon2020 SAPHIRe project

Memberships

European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN)

European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM)

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