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RCSI Bahrain Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary in the Kingdom as a Global Leader in Healthcare Education

Posted: 2nd October 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Institution has seen more than 850 students qualify in its 10 years in Bahrain and is soon to open USD$700,000 sports centre The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) today officially launched its 10 year anniversary celebrations. At an event with staff and students, the President of RCSI Bahrain, Professor […]

New Longitudinal Report Shows the Challenging Reality of Ageing with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland

Posted: 1st October 2014 Author: Vi Doan

A new report launched this week by the Intellectual Disability Supplement to TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing) conducted by academics from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, has highlighted the serious, complex and unique health and social challenges facing Ireland’s intellectual disability population. For the first time in history, people in Ireland […]

Topical health issues to be explored at new RCSI MiniMed lecture series

Posted: 29th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Mental health, breast cancer, pregnancy screening, antibiotics and anxiety lectures to form part of the series RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) today announced the programme for its RCSI Open Lecture Series for 2014/2015. The series of health lectures is open free of charge to the public and will be held on the last […]

NUIG Joins in Cross-Border Partnership on Diabetes Related Research

Posted: 26th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

NUI Galway and the University of Ulster have joined forces with HSE West and the Western Health and Social Care Trust to create a collaborative cross-border partnership on diabetes-related research. The “Atlantic – Alliance for Cooperation on Research into Diabetes” (Atlantic – ACORD) initiative brings together clinicians and researchers from the health service, academia and […]

Cancer Researcher Awarded for Participation in Lindau Nobel Laureate Awards

Posted: 26th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Mr Damien English T.D., and Professor Orla Feely, Chairperson of the Irish Research Council, recently presented NUI Galway researcher Dr Aideen Ryan with an award in recognition of her selection and participation in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Since 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have been bringing […]

UL graduate’s life-saving technology wins €2,500 James Dyson Award

Posted: 22nd September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

NUTRIA, a new feeding system for patients who can not ingest food normally, designed by 22 year old University of Limerick graduate, Darren Lehane, has won the Irish leg of the 2014 James Dyson award. A graduate of UL’s BSc Product Design and Technology, Darren was inspired to come up with the new invention after […]

UCD psychology journal achieves top world ranking by impact factor

Posted: 16th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

According to the latest Thomson Reuters Impact Factors, the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IRSEP), an academic journal from the UCD School of Psychology has topped its field based on its first impact factor of 3.353 – making it the world’s highest ranked journal in the field of sport psychology and the 5th highest ranked (out of 75 […]

RCSI Bahrain Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary in the Kingdom as Global Leader in Healthcare Education

Posted: 9th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) today officially launched its 10 year anniversary celebrations. At an event with staff and students, the President of RCSI Bahrain, Professor Sameer Otoom announced a number of exciting plans to celebrate 10 years of providing healthcare education in Bahrain. As part of the celebrations, […]

RCSI ready to welcome new cohort of students as Orientation Week 2014 begins

Posted: 8th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

08 September 2014 RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) is gearing up to welcome 470 new students to the College to study Medicine, Physiotherapy and Pharmacy during Orientation Week 2014 which will begin today and last until Thursday 11th September. This year’s undergraduate intake of 385 medical students, 55 pharmacy students and 30 […]

World-Renowned Surgeon to Deliver Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture at NUI Galway

Posted: 4th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

NUI Galway will host Ireland’s largest surgical conference, the 39th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium, on 5-6 September 2014. Internationally renowned surgeon, Dr John Birkmeyer will deliver the Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Strategies for Improving the Quality of Surgical Care’. John Birkmeyer, MD is the George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery and Director […]

Exciting proof-of-concept for acoustic dispensing of single cell stem cells

Posted: 3rd September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) at NUI Galway and Irish start-up Poly-Pico Technologies Ltd. have successfully executed a new and exciting scientific proof-of-concept involving the use of sound waves to dispense living stem cells. Using the Poly-Pico micro-drop dispensing device, the researchers were able to isolate individual adult stem cells from a bone marrow sample. The […]

UCC Research Helps Malaria Vaccine Development

Posted: 3rd September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Researchers at UCC have developed a microneedle-based patch that results in increased vaccine-induced protection against malaria infection using lower doses of vaccine in pre-clinical testing. The lead researcher, Dr Anne Moore, heads to Silicon Valley next week to meet venture capitalists and leading technology companies with a view to commercialising the research. The microneedle-based patch […]

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