The Health Research Board have announced this year’s recipients of the HRB Summer Student Scholarships. Nine UCC medical students were awarded Summer scholarships. To put this achievement in context, this year the HRB received 141 applications and 42 awards were made, giving a success rate of just under 30%. UCC received 12 of those […]
Project will identify health hazards caused by nanoparticles entering respiratory system The study’s results will establish the basis for the development of intelligent testing tools A team of scientists at University College Dublin will lead an international research collaboration to develop methods of assessing the health and safety risks associated with engineered nanomaterials. Nanotechnology involves the […]
In a search for new ways to attack pressure ulcers – a persistent, £2 billion-plus (stg) problem throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom — Bruin Biometrics LLC (BBI, LLC), a developer of innovative sensor-based diagnostic products, and RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) announced today that they have agreed to undertake a number of […]
Research from paediatricians in University College Cork’s School of Medicine has revealed that a weakness of a newborn infant’s skin barrier can help predict which child will develop food allergies, and could in the future be used to intervene to prevent both food allergy and other allergic conditions such as asthma during the course of […]
Guidelines on the assessment and management of the palliative care needs of Parkinson’s disease launched Guidelines on the assessment and management of the palliative care needs of Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonian syndromes, was launched in University College Cork’s College of Medicine and Health on the 26th of April. April is world Parkinson’s Awareness month, and […]
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics and the CRANN Institute, Trinity College, have discovered a new form of light, which will impact our understanding of the fundamental nature of light. One of the measurable characteristics of a beam of light is known as angular momentum. Until now, it was thought that in all […]
Professor Cormac Taylor, UCD Professor of Cellular Physiology, is to be recognised with the 2017 Takeda Distinguished Research Award by the American Physiological Society’s Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to an outstanding investigator who is internationally recognised for his/her contribution to research in areas represented by the Section. The […]
On Thursday 19th May 2016 Dr Pat Kiely, GEMS Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, hosted a public event outlining how collaborative research is helping us target Ireland’s diseases. Medical students, nursing students, parents, school kids, teachers and the general public were invited to take part in a public forum discussing how we can target these diseases […]
Dr Ciara O’Connor, MD candidate at University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, has been awarded the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists prize for best Oral Presentation at a meeting held in Dublin on 27th Feb 2016. Dr O’Connor, who is supervised by Prof Colum Dunne (GEMS Director of Research) and Dr Nuala O’Connell (Consultant […]
UCD researchers and their UK collaborators have identified a new disease gene causing a lethal disorder where babies die antenatally or shortly after birth. Using single nucleotide polymorphism homozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing, the research team identified a novel homozygous mutation in NEK9 as the cause of the disorder. Analysis of the NEK9 protein […]
The formal renaming of University Hospital Kerry (UHK) recognises the significant service that it provides to patients in the Kerry, North Cork and West Limerick areas as part of the South / South West Hospital Group. UHK is now formally linked to seven other acute hospitals in counties Cork, Waterford, South Tipperary and Kilcreene Orthopaedic […]
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most acutely effective treatment for severe, sometimes life-threatening, depression. However despite a robust scientific evidence-base, ECT use remains limited mainly because of cognitive side effects, especially concerns about its effect upon memory function and autobiographical memory in particular. Now new research, led by Professor of Psychiatry Declan McLoughlin from Trinity […]
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