Category Archives: News

Trinity College Dublin Reveals €230m Blueprint for the Campus of the Future

Posted: 28th November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

Trinity College Dublin’s first Estates Strategy is revealed. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has revealed its €230m capital programme to build the campus of the future as part of the university’s first Estates Strategy. In July, Siliconrepublic.com reported how the university has major ambitions for Dublin, including a plan to build a 5.5-acre campus in the Grand Canal […]

New Therapy to Treat Rare Cancer Developed by Scientists at Trinity

Posted: 26th November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

A new therapy that may hold potential for treating a rare soft-tissue cancer that most commonly affects young people has been developed by scientists at Trinity College Dublin. Synovial sarcoma, a difficult to treat cancer caused by a genetic mutation, starts most commonly in the legs or arms, but it can appear in any part of the […]

British Nutrition Foundation Award for UCD Dietitian

Posted: 14th November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

A UCD researcher has been named as the latest recipient of the British Nutrition Foundation’s Drummond Early Career Scientist Award. Dr Caoileann Murphy, a postdoctoral research dietitian at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research Dr Caoileann Murphy, a postdoctoral research dietitian at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, will be honoured at […]

Three RCSI Researchers Awarded Funding from the Health Research Board and Medical Research Charities Group

Posted: 9th November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

Three researchers from RCSI have been awarded funding through the Health Research Board (HRB) and Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) Joint Funding Scheme. The three RCSI projects were among 14 studies that were funded by the €3.2m scheme. With this funding, RCSI researchers will study diabetic foot infections, autoimmune epilepsy and Alpha-1, a genetic condition […]

Researchers Awarded Funding for Motor Neuron Disease, Cancer and Blindness Projects

Posted: 8th November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

Five researchers from the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin have been awarded funding from the Health Research Board (HRB) and Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) for projects that will improve the lives of patients living with motor neuron disease, cancer and blindness. The five researchers were the successful awardees out of a total […]

University of Limerick is Sunday Times University of the Year 2019

Posted: 1st November 2018 Author: Vi Doan

University of Limerick is ‘University of the Year 2019’ in the Sunday Times Good University Guide. UL’s leading position in graduate employability, its cooperative education and internship programmes, its research in partnership with industry and the opening of the €31million new Glucksman Library were among the many reasons for the award. UL previously claimed the title […]

RCSI’s National Emergency Medicine Program Wins PMI Award for Project Excellence

Posted: 24th October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

RCSI’s National Emergency Medicine Programme has been awarded a prestigious Global PMI Award for Project Excellence. The award, which recognises complex projects that deliver superior performance of project management practices and positive impacts on society, was presented at the PMI Professional Awards Gala in Los Angeles. The RCSI project team, across IT and Surgical Affairs, […]

UCC is Europe’s Top ‘Star’ for Sustainability

Posted: 22nd October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

University College Cork has become the first institution outside of North America to achieve a gold star rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). UCC now joins Princeton, Cornell and UC Berkeley in receiving the highest standard, Gold ‘Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System’ (STARS) for excellence in sustainability. […]

A €100 Million Investment Announced for Trinity College Dublin

Posted: 19th October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

By Rudy Kinsella Trinity College Dublin have that they have received an investment that will cost up to €100 million, which will be paid back over 30 years. The investment will go into developments focusing on teaching and research facilities, as well as student accommodation on campus over the next two years. The news was announced […]

Irish Researchers Find Vitamin D Link to Breast Cancer Survival

Posted: 9th October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

Brian Hutton for The Irish Times Breast cancer patients taking vitamin D supplements after being diagnosed were found to have better survival rates, a study of thousands of Irish women by cancer researchers has found. Both the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), which led the research, and the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) say […]

A Future of Expensive New Medicines and Tough Decisions

Posted: 5th October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

When deciding which medicines, treatments, services and programmes to fund, the primary aim should be to reduce uncertainty about expected outcomes. It’s a year since cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi was made available in Ireland and so far, the reviews are mixed. While of benefit to some patients (reduced exacerbations, for example) others were unable to tolerate it. Access to […]

New Report Will Shape the Future of Intellectual Disability Nursing in Ireland

Posted: 4th October 2018 Author: Vi Doan

A new report, ““Shaping the Future of Intellectual Disability Nursing in Ireland” was launched by Minister Finian McGrath TD., on September 19th 2018. The Registered Nurse in Intellectual Disability (RNID) report is sponsored by HSE Disability Services and the HSE Office of Nursing & Midwifery Services Division (ONMSD) in partnership with Professor Mary McCarron and her team […]

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