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Trinity College Dublin’s MSc in Translational Oncology Wins Best New Course Award

Posted: 27th August 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The MSc in Translational Oncology, offered by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Medicine, was awarded Best New Course 2014 at the Grad Ireland Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards on April 30th. The Grad Ireland judges deemed the programme to have an “excellent mentoring structure, with a great balance between research and practice in a vital knowledge […]

Trinity is Ranked Number One in Ireland by Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities

Posted: 27th August 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Trinity College Dublin has been ranked number one in Ireland in the recently published Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2014. It has moved to 151-200 in the world in 2014 compared with 201-250 in 2013, an increase of up to 50 places and the highest ever score of any Irish university in […]

RCSI Announces 2014/2015 Professional Development Programme for NCHDs

Posted: 25th August 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The 2014/2015 Professional Development Programme (PDP) for non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) working in the fields of surgery and emergency medicine, taking place at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), has been announced with this year’s programme offering a newly expanded choice of technical skills and human factors modules. Eligible NCHDs have until Friday, […]

Bacterial Blueprints Could Give Doctors and Nurses Fewer Sleepless Nights

Posted: 14th August 2014 Author: Vi Doan

One of the most common types of bacterial infection might soon give doctors and nurses fewer sleepless nights, thanks to a discovery made by scientists from theSchool of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Instituteat Trinity College Dublin. The scientists used X-ray crystallography techniques to provide a blueprint of the cellular machinery used by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. […]

Researchers Discover World-First New Material which could Revolutionise IT

Posted: 18th July 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Scientists at AMBER, the materials science centre based at Trinity College Dublin have discovered a completely new material, which could revolutionise information technology, computer processes and data storage. The world-first discovery was led by one of Ireland’s most highly-cited researchers Professor Michael Coey, a Principal Investigator at AMBER from Trinity’s School of Physics. The Centre is funded […]

UL early career researchers awarded over €1.85 million in SFI funding

Posted: 11th July 2014 Author: Vi Doan

Four University of Limerick researchers have been awarded in excess of €1.85 million in funding by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as part of today’s €23 million funding announcement by Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock. The UL research awards included Career Development Awards to Dr Pat Kiely, Dr Sarah Hudson and Dr Christophe Silien […]

RCSI welcomes SFI funding to support early career researchers

Posted: 11th July 2014 Author: Vi Doan

On July 7th, Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr Seán Sherlock, T.D. announced €23 million in new funding to help support 40 of Ireland’s most promising young research talent to become fully independent researchers. The funding is being awarded through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) and Career Development Award (CDA) Programmes. […]

Novel training approach to management of ruptured aneurysms introduced to Ireland

Posted: 19th June 2014 Author: Vi Doan

A new approach to the management of ruptured aneurysms from presentation in the emergency department through to keyhole surgery and aftercare is being implemented by a team at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and Beaumont Hospital. The first team training day to enable this minimally invasive approach in a hospital setting in Ireland […]

Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland

Posted: 18th June 2014 Author: Vi Doan

The Minister for Research and Innovation Mr Sean Sherlock TD has welcomed the launch of a National Policy Statement on Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland. Ireland sits close to the world’s top research performing nations, in terms of research quality and impact related to its size. This policy statement aims to commit the main organisations […]

250 doctors celebrate making the cut at College of Surgeons

Posted: 6th June 2014 Author: Vi Doan

SCALING the lofty heights of medicine is a given for the 250 future doctors who donned caps and gowns to graduate from the Royal College of Surgeons – but for one, the aim is even higher. Neil Naik (24) from Toronto, Canada, hopes to be the doctor on board Elon Musk’s planned flight to Mars […]

RCSI Hosts Inaugural National Surgical Skills Competition

Posted: 15th April 2014 Author: Vi Doan

RCSI is hosting the first National Surgical Skills Competition grand final today in the National Surgical Training Centre to give aspiring surgeons from Irish medical schools the opportunity to develop and showcase their surgical skills. The competition will involve the students competing in a range of surgical challenges, from suturing and knot-tying to undertaking key-hole […]

Cardiovascular Disease research receives €6 million EU research award

Posted: 11th April 2014 Author: Vi Doan

A European consortium of clinicians and scientists has launched a major EU-funded collaboration project focused on the prevention of heart disease and stroke through food. BACCHUS an acronym for ‘Beneficial effects of bioactive compounds in humans’ will receive €6 million in funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. BACCHUS aims to generate robust scientific […]

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