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SFI Investigators Programme 2012... Webinar SFI hosted a webinar on Tuesday 20th December from 11:30 – 12:30 to discuss the main points of the recen... read more
President of Ireland Young Researcher Award... The President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) is Science Foundation Ireland's most prestigious award to recrui... read more
US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme... The Governments of the United States of America, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have come together for a u... read more
SFI Conferences and Workshops... Science Foundation Ireland’s Conference and Workshop Programme supports conferences and workshops which enable Iri... read more
SFI Research Professorship Programme... Programme Overview Attracting outstanding research talent to Ireland is one of the principal ambitions of Science Found... read more
SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership...   Summary The vision of the Wellcome Trust, the UK-based global charity, is to achieve extraordinary improvemen... read more
EMBO-SFI Workshops Partnership...                     ... read more
SFI ERC Support Programme... The SFI ERC support programme supports the Irish host institutions of awardees of the ERC Starting and Advanced Grant sc... read more
SFI Research Centres Programme 2012... Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is pleased to announce that it will issue a Call for Proposals in 2012 under the auspic... read more
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Press Releases

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Sherlock announces Government approval for drafting of Bill to extend ... Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for Research and Innovation, today [Wednesday] announced that the Government has approved the... read more
Scientists trace origin of 'speed gene' in modern racehorses to Britis... UCD News All modern variants traced back to the legendary Nearctic Wide increase in variants of original ‘spe... read more
“Ireland is recognised as a leader in the localisation and global se... Graduates in high demand in Ireland’s 16,000-job localisation sector Minister Sherlock supports call for more ski... read more
Probiotics - sugar-coating promotes survival and reduces infection... New insights into how probiotic bacteria provide positive health benefits are published today in the prestigious interna... read more
Major US Research Award for Professor Frank Barry... Thursday, 5 January, 2012: One of Ireland’s leading scientists working in the field of stem cell therapy is to rec... read more
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Science in the News

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Aiming to take Ireland higher up the curve... The Irish Times - Dick Ahlstrom  The new director general of Science Foundation Ireland wants to see creative part... read more
Government approves drafting of bill to extend SFI’s remit... Silicon Republic The Government has approved the drafting of a bill to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland ... read more
Vaccine can kill cancer cells... Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a promising vaccine that can kill cancer cells. The method has been... read more
Morning Ireland RTE SFI has built a community of 3,000 researchers... Morning Ireland Business News RTE Radio 1 - 20/12/2011 (7.50 Bulletin)  Dr Graham Love, Director General, SFI talk... read more
Physicists focus in on Higgs boson – the so called ‘God particle... UCD News Two experimental physics groups at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - the world's leading ... read more
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SFI Webinar: Investigators Programme 2012... Webinar Date: Tuesday 20th December 2011Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. SFI will host a webinar on Tuesday 20th December ... read more
SFI Community Webinar... Date: Friday, September 30, 2011Time: 14:00 PM - 15:00 PM BST  SFI will host a webinar on Friday 30th of September... read more
EMBL Courses... For information on EMBL courses please click here. ... read more
XMM-Newton Eleventh Announcement of Opportunity (AO-11)... The European Space Agency has launched the eleventh  "Announcement of Opportunity" and invite proposals for observa... read more
Future Internet Award... The European Future Internet Award is open again, the deadline is 16th September 2010 This award is an opportunity for ... read more
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