Cancer rehabilitation receives €2.1m
The University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, is set to lead a €2.1m European connected health innovative training programme focused on cancer rehabilitation.
Cancer: Activating Technology for Connected Health (CATCH), is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions initiative, and aims to provide a unique training and research platform for eight PhD students, from across Europe.
The programme aims to respond to a fundamental requirement for a new healthcare model. It hopes to meet the industry needs by training researchers who can operate in an inter-disciplinary context across academia, healthcare and other industry sectors such as personal sensing, health management, ICT and insurance.
CATCH hopes to embrace all key elements such as technical, social and economic sciences that are required to produce graduates capable of meeting existing, but also future needs in cancer rehabilitation to improve the lives of those affected by cancer.
Professor Brian Caulfield, who leads University College Dublin’s Connected Health Programme and is CATCH project co-ordinator, said: “Over the past ten years, advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment have been groundbreaking. CATCH will join in the fight against cancer and will provide a much needed training and research programme.
“CATCH is a deep collaboration across academic, business and clinical sectors, but will be patient-focused. The interrelated core research projects will address gaps in the knowledge and provide evidence for technology-enabled cancer rehabilitation that can be implemented, whilst adhering to the overall Connected Health concept that the patient is at the centre of it all.”
CATCH, is led by University College Dublin, and includes two other leading universities, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, and University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
