2013 Press Releases
UCC Department of Medicine to lead €6m EU project
The UCC Department of Medicine will lead a €6m EU-funded research project to develop a software engine to optimise drug therapy for older people in hospital.
The project, called SENATOR, is being led and co-ordinated by Dr Denis O’Mahony, senior lecturer in Medicine and consultant geriatrician at CUH. SENATOR, which is comprised of 12 work packages, will design, validate and test by multi-centre clinical trial a novel software engine to optimise drug therapy for older people in hospital.
The SENATOR clinical trial will determine if SENATOR software can reduce the rate of adverse drug reactions and overall healthcare costs in hospitalised older people, these being increasing challenges throughout Europe in ageing populations.
The other partner hospitals for the SENATOR (FP7- HEALTH 2012 funding call) trial are located in Madrid, Aberdeen, Ghent, Ancona and Reykjavik. The principal software SME partner is Helix Health Ltd, based in Dublin. University of East Anglia, University of Iceland and ClinInfo™ are the other technical partners. The SENATOR project is being managed logistically by Gabo:mi, based in Munich and scientifically by the UCC Clinical Research Facility (Professor Joe Eustace) in partnership with the Department of Medicine. The SENATOR project will run until October 2017.