Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD, has announced an investment of €24 million across 43 research projects to support Ireland’s blossoming research talent.
Seven UCD research projects have been funded through the SFI-IRC Pathway programme. This collaborative initiative between Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) supports early-career research across all disciplines and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
The School of Medicine's Dr Oleksii Rukhlenko was one of the awardees for his research project titled: ‘Using cyber-physical network modelling to tackle RAS-driven cancers’.
Marking the new investment, Minister Harris said: “I am pleased to announce funding for critical research projects spanning a broad range of areas across science, technology, engineering, maths, arts, humanities and social sciences. I am particularly pleased to see we are researching the area of vaping and the impact it is having on the next generation of smokers. I believe the impact is significant and I am really looking forward to hearing the outcome of that work.
“There is also invaluable research into student mental health and wellbeing across the island of Ireland. By supporting this activity, we are cultivating generational talent within Ireland’s research and innovation ecosystem that is focusing on key challenges and opportunities and on the issues facing this generation such as climate and technology.”
The awards will enable postdoctoral researchers to conduct independent research for a four–year period and will provide funding for a postgraduate student who will be primarily supervised by the awardee. Co-funding partners supporting the funding of seven proposals are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Met Éireann and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), committing a total of €1.95 million.
Congratulations Dr Rukhlenko.
The above is from the UCD Research story which can be found here.