GLASGOW University has been awarded £3.4 million to create a new research centre with state-of-the-art equipment.
The funding has been given by the Medical Research Council in a bid to help find treatments for diseases based on individual patients, rather than relying on one-size-fits-all research.
The equipment - a Molecular Pathology Node which will be the largest in the UK - will be based in the purpose-built Laboratory Medicine Building at the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and will enable scientists, pathologists and clinicians to work together with industry partners.
Professor Anna Dominiczak, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University, 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."
MRC announced funding for a total of six nodes across the UK, with Glasgow receiving the largest award.
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