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NUI Galway Research on Converting Biomass to High Value Molecules For Drug Discovery

Posted: 18th May 2017 Author: Vi Doan

International journal features NUI Galway research on producing higher value chemicals that could be used in drug discovery projects for Type-2 Diabetes and Gaucher Disease Researchers from the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway have produced research that has been published this week in the international journal Synthesis, and has been featured on the journal’s […]

NUI Galway – New research will investigate how changing diet affects kidney disease

Posted: 26th January 2017 Author: Vi Doan

Dr Andrew Smyth, NUI Galway, has secured a prestigious Wellcome Post-Doctoral Training Fellowship award through the SFI-HRB-Wellcome Partnership to carry out a clinical trial to determine the effect of dietary modification on kidney disease. The award is worth €486,492 and will be co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board and Wellcome. Using […]

Leading expert in cardiology joins NUI Galway to lead €5 million project in medical devices

Posted: 20th December 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Professor William Wijns, an expert in cardiology, has joined NUI Galway as Professor of Medical Devices. He will spearhead a €5 million research project, which will develop wearable sensors to alert patients at high risk of heart attacks to triggers such as stress or high blood pressure. Professor Wijns joins the University through the Science […]

Three-minute presentation on more accessible and affordable cancer screening wins first prize at NUIG’s Threesis

Posted: 8th December 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Bárbara Oliveira took first prize at NUI Galway’s third annual Threesis Competition which took place last week. The winner was judged on how well they conveyed and communicated their research to a general audience. A PhD student at NUI Galway, Bárbara’s presentation was on using microwave breast imaging to enable more accessible and affordable cancer […]

NUI Galway Students Attend First Healthcare Simulation Programme Workshop

Posted: 15th November 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Pictured are the first group of students undertaking the Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters in Medical and Healthcare Simulation at NUI Galway. The first group of NUI Galway students undertaking the Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters in Medical and Healthcare Simulation recently attended a two-day workshop as part of their course. The hands-on interactive simulation based learning workshop […]

Three NUI Galway investigators identified as the next generation of research talent

Posted: 28th October 2016 Author: Vi Doan

(from left to right): Director General of Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland, Professor Mark Ferguson, NUI Galway’s Dr Laura Russo and Dr Aideen Ryan, Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation, John Halligan TD. Three NUI Galway researchers have been awarded significant funding in an announcement made […]

NUIG-based CÚRAM teams with Neograft to develop new method to manufacture of coronary bypass device

Posted: 24th October 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Neograft, a Boston based medical technology company has teamed up with CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices, to develop a novel manufacturing method for coronary bypass devices. Based at NUI Galway, CÚRAM has over 250 researchers engaged in current projects, both in collaboration with industry and on blue-sky research. Coronary […]

New programme to Advance Clinical Research Capability

Posted: 13th October 2016 Author: Vi Doan

A team of Irish clinical academics have secured one of seven major awards that have been made across the UK and Ireland by the Wellcome Trust as part of an initiative to increase clinical research capability. The scheme, which will be known as the Wellcome – HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training Programme, will support the […]

NUI Galway – New insights into potent cancer tumour suppressor gene

Posted: 30th September 2016 Author: Vi Doan

New insight into the function of a gene important in the suppression of cancer is published today. Researchers at the National University of Ireland Galway have shown that the TP53 gene has even greater anti-cancer activity than previously thought. Professor Noel Lowndes is head of the Centre for Chromosome Biology at the National University of […]

NUI Galway Medical Students win Public Speaking Competition

Posted: 9th December 2015 Author: Vi Doan

‌2015 Intervarsity Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition Year 4 medical students, Jenny Fitzgibbons and Ming Cai won the 2015 intervarsity Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition on Nov 25th. This year’s debate topic was “People ask all the time how I’m doing, but the truth is, they don’t really want to know”. Each of the 7 medical schools […]

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 […]