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UCD PhD project chosen for global impact and innovation exhibition in Dubai

PhD student Ella Fouhy’s project ‘PREVENT – Early Screening Test to Prevent Pre-Eclampsia and Save Lives’ was chosen from over 2700 applications, the first ever UCD project featured in Prototypes for Humanity.

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Academics, regulators and the Food Industry unite to combat food fraud

Prof Saskia van Ruth leads a coalition to establish the European Food Fraud Community of Practice, engaging researchers, regulators, small- and large-sized businesses, to enhance food authenticity and traceability.

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HRB invests €12.5 million to develop Ireland’s future research leaders

Two UCD awardees announced under HRB Research Career Framework that aims to support emerging researchers to establish themselves as independent investigators.

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Andrew Parnell appointed as Met Éireann Professor of Weather and Climate Research at UCD

The Weather and Climate Research Professorship represents a multi-million-euro investment by Met Éireann to support the further development of weather and climate services for Ireland using AI and data science.

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ERC Rights-To-Unite Project Launched at UCD Sutherland School of Law

The €2.5 million European Research Council (ERC) funded project aims to generate a new theory on the role of law in societal integration within and beyond the EU.

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EU project aims to revolutionise biomedical research with extracelluar vesicles

Led by UCD’s Prof Breandán Kennedy, EVEREST will bring together 21 institutions from 11 countries to advance the study of 'messengers' between cells which could transform early diagnosis and targeted treatments.

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ERC Synergy Grant for development of novel technology that could revolutionise clinical diagnostics

Dr Nicola Fletcher has received a coveted European Research Council Synergy Grant for her groundbreaking project NanoX.

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Scientists’ next-generation space materials blast off for tests on ISS

UCD’S Prof Kate Robson Brown among team launching low Earth orbit experiments on latest International Space Station supply mission, testing composite materials and analytical models.

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Competition! Celebrating John Stewart Bell’s Legacy

UCD spin-out Equal1 launches inaugural ‘Quantum Solutions for the Environment Challenge’ for students around the island of Ireland, in honour of the famous Belfast physicist.

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New research reveals MRSA's double defence against antibiotics

Research from the University of Sheffield and UCD reveals mechanisms that allow superbug MRSA to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches to control infectious disease.

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Autistic psychiatrists who don't know they're autistic may fail to spot autism in patients

Groundbreaking study exploring the experiences of autistic psychiatrists is led in Ireland by Associate Clinical Professor Mary Doherty, UCD School of Medicine, published in BJPsych Open.

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Fifty UCD postgrad and postdoc researchers awarded under Government of Ireland call

Next-generation space instrument development, philosophy and democracy, Irish biodiversity, emerging technologies in spine surgery, green hydrogen, and treating epidermolysis bullosa among topics funded.

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UCD Centre for One Health designated as WHO Collaborating Centre

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the UCD Centre for One Health as a WHO collaborating centre - the first WHO Collaborating Centre on One Health in Europe.

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New precision medicine approach helps detect subgroups of people with obesity at high risk of diabetes and heart disease

As part of the SOPHIA project, a pioneering clinical risk prediction algorithm has been developed that splits obesity into 5 separate diagnostic profiles.

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Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future funding for ‘high-risk, high-reward research’ at UCD

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science announces funding for 11 innovative UCD projects. 

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Irish experts lead international research alliance to tackle Mpox epidemic in Africa

UCD is leading MpoxVax AFRIVAC, a new €1.3M international consortium that aims to rapidly deploy technology and develop new knowledge to end the current Mpox outbreak in DRC and surrounding countries.

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EIRSAT-1 detects merging neutron stars 3 billion light years away

On World Space Week, the team behind Ireland's first satellite revealed it detected two gamma-ray bursts with one confirmed by optical redshift via ESO network.

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New Director of Research at UCD

Dipti Pandya has been appointed Director of UCD Research at University College Dublin.

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New €5M Bioeconomy Investment, bringing research from lab to pilot scale demonstration

Director of Biorbic and Professor at UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Prof Kevin O’Connor, is the scientific lead on the BioScaleUp project. 

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UCD has 168 of world’s all-time top cited scientific authors

Elsevier has published the latest data-update for ‘science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators,’ revealing the top 2% most cited scientists in the world.

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Prof Murray Hitzman appointed Chair of the International Geoscience Programme Council

Director of iCRAG, Prof Murray Hitzman, has been appointed Chair of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Council for a four-year term.

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Microplastics experts say collaboration across disciplines is key to understanding impacts on human health

International conference at UCD brings experts and stakeholders together to explore the consequences of exposure to MNPs.

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Nine projects funded to enhance UCD’s research culture

First round of UCD Research Culture – Local Actions, Initiatives and Measures (ReCLAIM) awards, funded by Wellcome Institutional Fund for Research Culture, awarded to nine teams for diverse projects.

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Trial shows promising results for treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer

The new study, co-authored by Professor Michaela Higgins, UCD School of Medicine, was published in Nature Medicine.

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UCD Sustainability supports 17 projects in new seed funding scheme

The projects were launched during SDG Week, which mobilises annually in September to bring together communities, demand urgency and supercharge solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Topological quantum computers a step closer with new method to 'split' electrons

Research into quantum properties of nano-scale circuits recently published in Physical Review Letters reveals possible key to unlocking power of quantum computing.

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HRB invests over €2M in UCD Investigator-Led Projects addressing major health challenges

The Health Research Board (HRB) has announces funding to support research across three overarching themes; patient-oriented research, population health research, and health service research.

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EVIW 2024: Building capacity in animal immunology key to One Health success

The eighth European Veterinary Immunology Workshop was held in Dublin this year, co-organised by Dr Kieran Meade and colleagues from UCD, QUB, AFBI, and Teagasc.

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Minister for Health appoints Prof Peter Doran to the Health Research Board (HRB)

Dr Tracy Cunningham has been appointed as Chairperson Designate, while Prof Mark Lawler will join Prof Doran as a new Board member.

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European Research Council Funds Cutting-Edge Irish Research into Microplastics and Traumatic Brain Injury

Two UCD researchers are among 494 young scholars to receive ERC Starting Grants totalling €780 million.

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