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Two Shannon Companies, namely medical technology manufacturer Hooke Bio LTD and leading radar technology developer Provisio have been included in the Department of Enterprises €28m Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund, which are targeting three initiatives nationwide. Firstly Hooke Bio LTD, along with the University of Galway and lIFT Biosciences have a pool of €11.9m available to them for their work in treating Metastatic Tumuors that are no longer responding to treatment. Provisio, meanwhile, along with University of Limerick and Robert Bosch Ireland LTD are developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and have €6.9m of funding available to them for their project which aims to achieve safer driving outcomes. To discuss this further, Derrick Lynch was joined by Éamonn Boland, Provizio co-founder and program lead.