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Minister Lenihan announces winner of School Science Essay Competition
Publication Date: 19/1/2010
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| Friday, 15 January, 2010: Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D., has today announced the winner of the All-Ireland Science Essay Competition, organised by the Science Foundation Ireland-funded ‘Regenerative Medicine Institute’ (REMEDI), based at NUI Galway.
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The Social Semantic Web
Publication Date: 9/12/2009
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| Wednesday, 9 December, 2009: The solution to problems associated with social websites, such as information integration, dissemination and searchability are the subject of a new book by NUI Galway internet experts. The Social Semantic Web investigates how emerging Semantic Web technology has produced a variety of approaches to overcome existing information boundaries.
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Irish Companies Target Increased Growth in British Financial Markets 8th December 2009
Publication Date: 9/12/2009
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| Software is one of Ireland’s most important and fast-expanding industries, comprising over 800 multinational and Irish-owned software companies. Ireland is the single biggest exporter of software solutions in Europe and one of the top three software exporters in the world. IT products from Irish-owned companies have been deployed to every continent by many of the world’s leading businesses, financial services firms, governments and corporate organisations.
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Ireland Ranks Well on the Impact of its Research
Publication Date: 9/12/2009
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| A comprehensive study of publicly-funded research performance has shown that Ireland has improved in terms of the volume and impact of its research. Ireland ranks 8th on the impact of research publications within a group of 20 comparator countries, including; Denmark (1), Netherlands (3), US (4), UK (6), Finland (8), Australia (10), Singapore (13) and China (17).
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DERI Professor Presented with ITAG Award
Publication Date: 8/12/2009
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| Tuesday, 8 December, 2009: Professor Stefan Decker, Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway, was announced the award winner for ‘Academic Contribution to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector’ at the recent Information Technology Association Galway (ITAG) Industry Awards. |
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Irish Cancer Society Research Fellowship for NUI Galway
Publication Date: 2/12/2009
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| Tuesday, 1 December, 2009: Dr Eva Szegezdi of Biochemistry in the School of Natural Sciences and the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science (NCBES) at NUI Galway was one of three researchers to receive an Irish Cancer Society fellowship at a recent awards ceremony held in Dublin where President of Ireland, Mary McAleese presented six of Ireland’s most gifted young cancer researchers with inaugural Irish Cancer Society’s Research Scholarship Awards & Research Fellowship Awards. |
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New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development
Publication Date: 25/11/2009
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| Researcher supported by Science Foundation Ireland at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific journal, Angewandte Chemie(Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.200903647).
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Minister Lenihan addresses CLARITY Science Open Day: “Bringing Information to Life”
Publication Date: 23/11/2009
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| The Minister for Science Technology & Innovation, Mr Conor Lenihan TD today (Monday 23rd November 2009) launched the CLARITY Science Foundation Ireland CSET Science Open Day in the O’Reilly Hall, UCD. CLARITY is a world-class research centre for Sensor Technologies. Over 200 people participated in the event, which provided an opportunity for CLARITY researchers to showcase the innovative research taking place within this SFI CSET, in the form of talks, demonstrations and posters.
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Minister Lenihan announces Joint Nano Research Initiative between HP and CRANN
Publication Date: 18/11/2009
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| Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation, Mr Conor Lenihan, TD today (Wednesday 18th November 2009) announced that Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and HP will jointly fund a €3.7 million research programme in Ireland with CRANN, the SFI funded Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET) located in Trinity College Dublin. |
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Minister Conor Lenihan announces inaugural Science Foundation Ireland ‘Researcher of the Year’
Publication Date: 10/11/2009
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| Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr Conor Lenihan T.D., has today (Monday, November 9th, 2009) announced Professor Luke O’Neill of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) as winner of Science Foundation Ireland’s inaugural SFI “Researcher of the Year” accolade. Minister Lenihan made the announcement in a keynote address to the SFI Science Summit, at a two-day conference in Athlone attended by over 300 of Ireland’s leading scientific researchers. |
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Ireland’s competitiveness in ICT enhanced as Tánaiste opens new €48.7 million research building at Tyndall National Institute, Cork
Publication Date: 2/11/2009
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| Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D, today (Monday 2nd November 2009) officially opened the Government funded Tyndall National Institute’s new state-of-the-art research building, representing a remarkable addition to Ireland’s capabilities in nanoscale semiconductor research. The Tánaiste also announced that Tyndall will host the Enterprise Ireland-funded Competence Centre for Applied Nanotechnology, an industry-led research initiative involving some of the world’s leading companies such as multinationals Intel, Seagate, Medtronic and Analog Devices and Irish companies Aerogen, Audit Diagnostics, Creganna and Proxy Biomedical which is also supported by IDA Ireland.
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EUROHORCS Comes to Dublin
Publication Date: 23/10/2009
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| This week, (Friday, 23rd October 2009) EUROHORCS (European Heads of Research Councils) held its General Assembly meeting in the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin. EUROHORCS is an independent association of national research councils and research organisations of EU Member States. The heads of the councils and research organisations for each EU Member State attend the General Assembly. EUROHORCS is noted as being an active player in the field of European research policy by promoting and enhancing inter-council cooperation and serving as an advisory body for the European Commission.
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Government Invests €7.9 million in Early Career Researchers – Forging a Career in Science
Publication Date: 20/10/2009
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| Government committed to supporting early-career Irish-based researchers’ - Lenihan
“It is vital that we have in Ireland the mechanism to keep and attract to Ireland highly skilled, early-stage career researchers,” Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr Conor Lenihan T.D., said today (Tuesday, October 20th, 2009) as he announced Government funding of €7.9million under a new Science Foundation Ireland initiative that will help 15 highly-talented researchers at an early stage in their profession to progress towards a fully independent academic research career.
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IBM Expands Analytics and Risk Management Capability in Ireland
Publication Date: 19/10/2009
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| Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Ireland’s Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, TD, announced a new Risk Management Analytics research collaboration, joining IBM’s worldwide network of advanced analytic centres in the U.S., Germany and UK. This investment is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland. |
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€7million US-IRELAND R&D PARTNERSHIPS ANNOUNCED
Publication Date: 19/10/2009
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| Four tri-partite US-Ireland R&D partnerships valued at €7m have been announced at a recent event hosted by the US Ambassador to Ireland in Dublin.
The event saw Minister for Employment and Learning Sir Reg Empey gather with Southern Minister for Labour Affairs Dara Calleary and Ambassador Dan Rooney to announce the partnerships on behalf of the US-Ireland R&D Partnership.
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Top Immunologist Luke O’Neill Wins RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence
Publication Date: 9/10/2009
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| Science Foundation Ireland funded researcher and Professor of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Luke O’Neill, has won the prestigious RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence for his pioneering work on the molecular understanding of innate immunity and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. |
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Lenihan Launches Science Foundation Ireland-funded Alimentary Glycoscience Research Cluster at NUI Galway
Publication Date: 1/10/2009
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| Thursday, 1st October, 2009: Mr Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, today (Thursday, October 1st 2009) officially launched the Alimentary Glycoscience Research Cluster (AGRC) at NUI Galway. AGRC is an NUI Galway-led collaboration of research institutions and industry partners and was established following a grant earlier this year of €5.2million from Government through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). |
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Annual Science Essay Competition for Schools Launched by NUI Galway
Publication Date: 23/9/2009
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| Data protection and DNA is the theme for the 2009 Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) Annual Science Essay Competition. Now in its fifth year, the competition, which is co-sponsored by REMEDI and the NUI Galway College of Science, is open to all students in the senior cycle of secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. |
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Irish scientists get the inside track on sporting performance and recovery
Publication Date: 17/9/2009
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| Thursday September 17th 2009: Science Foundation Ireland-supported researchers based at Dublin City University (DCU), University College Dublin (UCD) and NUI Maynooth (NUIM) will, between now and Sunday, use the 2009 inaugural Race Around Ireland cycle challenge to monitor and assess the effect of strenuous activity on the human body.
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Minister Lenihan announces €14.8 million for the establishment of eagerly awaited new research centre Involving 69 highly skilled people
Publication Date: 15/9/2009
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| Tuesday, 15th September 2009
“Today’s investment establishing Systems Biology Ireland is clear evidence of the Government’s ongoing commitment to further enhancing Ireland’s scientific base to aid our economic recovery.” the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D. said today (Tuesday, September 15th 2009). Minister Lenihan was announcing Government funding of €14.8million to be provided over the next 5 years for the establishment of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Systems Biology Ireland research centre, being led by University College Dublin.
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Minister Lenihan identifies Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre as playing key role in the Smart Economy
Publication Date: 11/9/2009
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| “The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at University College Cork and Teagasc is playing a very important role in exploring commercial opportunities in both the pharma and food sectors here, and this emerging area offers enormous possibilities in the future for Ireland.” Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D. said today (11th September, 2009). |
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SFI supported researchers discover novel genes could unlock mystery of what makes us uniquely human
Publication Date: 2/9/2009
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| September 2, 2009 – Humans and chimpanzees are genetically very similar, yet it is not difficult to identify the many ways in which we are clearly distinct from chimps. In a study published online in Genome Research (www.genome.org), scientists have made a crucial discovery of genes that have evolved in humans after branching off from other primates, opening new possibilities for understanding what makes us uniquely human. The research was supported by a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA). |
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Science Foundation Ireland launches Energy Strategy
Publication Date: 15/7/2009
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| The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan T.D. and Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D., today (Wednesday, July 15th 2009) jointly launched the Science Foundation Ireland “Energy Strategy”.
Coinciding with the launch of the strategy, the Ministers also announced that a call for applications for the first SFI Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) dedicated to energy will be issued in the coming weeks. |
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Tyndall renews contract with European Space Agency
Publication Date: 9/7/2009
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| Cork- Wednesday 9 July, 2009 - Tyndall National Institute, UCC, announced today the renewal of a five year contract worth over seven hundred and fifty thousand euro (€750K) with the European Space Agency (ESA), to provide advanced microelectronic technical support to its European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands, a test centre and hub for European space activities. ESA is at the forefront of space science and requires suppliers to meet the highest international technical standards. Tyndall, a leading European microelectronics research institute, will provide ESA with advanced services in the evaluation of integrated circuits and components and the investigation of new technologies for space through an ESA Microelectronics Technology Support Laboratory (MTSL) based at Tyndall.
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Irelands newest pharmacutical devices company, Blue Box Sensors spun out of NUI Maynooth
Publication Date: 7/7/2009
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| NUI Maynooth has today announced the latest spin out from the University. Based on patented technology by Prof John Lowry, head of Chemistry Dept, Blue Box Sensors Ltd will manufacture devices that can track levels of chemicals in the brain in real time over the course of weeks or even months. The sensors offer fresh insights into the workings of the brain and stand to improve preclinical research and drug discovery for a range of diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia. Prof Lowry's original research was funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the commercialisation activity supported through Enterprise Ireland funding. |
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Minister Lenihan urges ‘Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology’ to push boundaries
Publication Date: 26/6/2009
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| Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation, Conor Lenihan T.D., today (Friday 26thJune 2009) addressed a special Commercialisation Workshop for the nine Science Foundation Ireland-funded ‘Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology’ (CSETs). The CSET programme, established by SFI in 2003, involved the creation – for the very first time in Ireland - of large-scale research centres that could compete on the international research stage. |
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Yahoo! Among NUI Galway Partners Improving Web Content
Publication Date: 26/6/2009
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| Friday, 26 June, 2009: Through an international collaboration, NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), has announced a new way to enhance web content. Working with AdaptiveBlue, Faviki, Freebase, Yahoo!, Zemanta and Zigtag, the team at DERI have launched Common Tag, a new tagging format for web pages. |
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Minister Lenihan Announces €5.6million Funding for New Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster
Publication Date: 25/6/2009
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| Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation, has today (Thursday, 25thJune 2009) announced a €5.6 million funding from Government, through Science Foundation Ireland, for the establishment of a new Strategic Research Cluster (SRC). Under the leadership of well known Consultant Medical Oncologist, Professor John Crown, with Dublin City University as lead academic institution, the SRC in Molecular Therapeutics for Cancer will assemble and build a fully-integrated national translational cancer drug discovery and development programme that will significantly benefit cancer patients in Ireland. |
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FINAL CALL! SFI Highlights Young Women in Engineering Scholarship Scheme 2009
Publication Date: 10/6/2009
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| Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is today (Wednesday, 10th June, 2009) calling for Ireland’s aspiring female engineers to apply for the SFI/Dell 2009 Young Women in Engineering Scholarship. Now in its fourth year, this award is aimed at attracting a greater number of high-achieving young women into third-level engineering disciplines. The closing date for applications is Friday, 26th June, 2009 at 5pm.
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Conway Fellows host prestigious EMBO conference in cancer proteomics
Publication Date: 9/6/2009
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| Conway Fellows Professors Liam Gallagher, Michael Dunn, Dolores Cahill, Stephen Pennington and William Watson along with collaborators in Sweden and the United Kingdom are hosting the EMBO Cancer Proteomics 2009 in UCD from the 8th-11th June 2009.
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SFI supported UCD researchers reveal six new genome sequences and fundamental insights to the Candida fungus family
Publication Date: 26/5/2009
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| SFI supported UCD researchers reveal six new genome sequences and fundamental insights to the Candida fungus family
An international research collaboration coordinated by UCD researchers and involving scientists at 21 institutes including the genome sequencing centres in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK and the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, USA have defined six new genome sequences in the Candida fungus family and identified genetic differences in species that cause disease.
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NUI Galway Researcher wins Outstanding Young Person of the Year Award
Publication Date: 25/5/2009
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| Monday, 25 May, 2009: Dr David Finn, Lecturer in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator and co-director of the Centre for Pain Research at NUI Galway, has received an award from Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ireland as one of Ireland’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of the year aged 18-40. He was awarded winner of the Scientific Development category on the basis of academic and scientific achievements and community service/civic engagement in his research. Dr Finn will now represent Ireland in this category in the World JCI TOYP competition.
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Chinese Government Awards for UCC Postgraduate Students
Publication Date: 20/5/2009
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| Two UCC postgraduate students, Ms Fang Fang and Mr Jun Wang, both working on research funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), have received awards from the Chinese Government for being outstanding PhD students in Ireland.
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SFI Funded Scientists Make Vaccine Breakthrough
Publication Date: 3/5/2009
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| May 3, 2009 – Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered a brand new protein in the immune system which if targeted has the potential of developing more effective vaccines The research team, led by Professor of Biochemistry, Luke O’Neill of TCD’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology, have found a protein which they have named TAG. TAG limits a key process in the body that is needed for vaccines to work. |
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Trinity College Dublin Scientists Develop A Mouse Model that Reproduces a Genetic Cause of Human Eczema
Publication Date: 7/4/2009
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| An international collaboration between Trinity College Dublin (TCD) scientists and researchers in Scotland and Japan has developed a new animal model that reproduces a major genetic cause of human eczema. The TCD team was led by Professor Padraic Fallon, Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Professor of Translational Immunology at TCD’s Institute of Molecular Medicine and School of Medicine. This new discovery which has the potential of assisting the development of new therapies in the treatment of the disease has just been published online
(April 6, 2009) in leading international journal Nature Genetics.
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Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute Wins 2nd Place in Prestigious Global Elsevier Grand Challenge
Publication Date: 1/5/2009
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| May 1st, 2009: The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), based at NUI Galway, has won 2nd place in the prestigious Elsevier Grand Challenge, a global competition which invites researchers to prototype tools dealing with the ever-increasing amount of online life sciences information. Hosted by Elsevier, a leading global healthcare and scientific publisher, DERI was competing again over more than 70 groups from Universities and Research organisations around the globe. |
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GlycoScience Ireland Hosts Annual International Conference in NUI Galway
Publication Date: 30/4/2009
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| Over 150 delegates from Ireland, Europe and the US today attended the 2nd annual GlycoScience Ireland Conference held in NUI Galway. The aim of the event is to bring Irish researchers together to provide visibility and collaborative opportunities for Irish glycoscientists with international academic and industrial communities that will be responsible for the translation of glycoscience discoveries into commercial and clinical realities. |
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Obama Administration Using Technology Developed at NUI Galway
Publication Date: 7/4/2009
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| An internet technology developed at NUI Galway is to be used by President Obama's administration in its new website devoted to the $800 billion economic stimulus package. The administration's 'Recovery.gov' site will employ a web standard, created at NUI Galway's Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the US Government.
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Secondary Schools Debate Topical Science Issues
Publication Date: 6/4/2009
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| Secondary school students representing all the Provinces of Ireland participated in the final of the Debating Science Issues (DSI) competition on Thursday April 2nd, at the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. After several closely fought debates from four teams representing the provinces of Connaught, Ulster, Leinster and Munster, St. Mary’s Secondary School from Macroom, Co. Cork emerged as the All-Ireland winners. |
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Author of The Pleasures of Counting to deliver Public Lecture on Mathematics at NUI Galway
Publication Date: 27/3/2009
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| The distinguished Cambridge University mathematician Professor Tom Korner, author of The Pleasures of Counting, will deliver a free public lecture at NUI Galway on Monday, 6 April. The lecture coincides with the SFI co-sponsored 61st British Mathematical Colloquium at NUIG. Professor Tom Korner in his lectures, books and publications uses Mathematics to help people understand the world around them, and his lecture is designed to engage the general public with the subject.
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TCD Hosts International Scientific Symposium on Nanotechnology
Publication Date: 9/3/2009
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| An international symposium on nanotechnology, featuring leaders of world nanoscience institutes hosted by Trinity College’s Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) took place today (Monday, March 9) in the Science Gallery at TCD. |
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Tánaiste announces establishment of 5 New Science Foundation Ireland ‘Strategic Research Clusters’
Publication Date: 25/2/2009
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| Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D., has today (Wednesday, February 25th, 2009) announced the establishment of 5 new Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Strategic Research Clusters (SRCs), representing a €23.9million investment in ground-breaking, collaborative research activities involving seven academic institutions and 22 companies. |
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Opsona Therapeutics Closes €18M Funding
Publication Date: 18/2/2009
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| Opsona Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced the completion of an €18M ($23M) Series B financing round which will enable it to expand both at an operational and clinical level. Novartis Venture Fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Inventages Venture Capital and Seroba Kernel Life Sciences all participated in the funding. |
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SFI-funded new research brings hope for treatment of Muscular Dystrophy
Publication Date: 22/1/2009
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| New research published today by SFI researchers at NUI Maynooth and the University of Western Australia proves the efficiency of an innovative gene therapy for the treatment of muscular dystrophy and brings a cure closer to reality. There is no cure currently available to address the severe degeneration of the skeletal musculature, heart and respiratory tract associated with the disease but for the first time this new research offers a real hope for a therapy that could reverse these symptoms and increase life expectancy. |
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Ireland’s R&D capacity showcased as IDA Ireland and SFI co-host R&D Seminar in Japan
Publication Date: 15/1/2009
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| Thursday 15th January 2009 – An Taoiseach Brian Cowen, TD delivered a keynote speech and announced new investments for Ireland at the IDA Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) co-hosted R&D Seminar in Japan yesterday. The seminar was completely oversubscribed and attended by over 150 key decision makers from Japanese high tech companies. The objective was to provide an overview of Ireland's R&D environment, supporting ecosystem, examples of recent Japan-Ireland joint R&D projects and presentations by major research institutes in Ireland of current research projects to a targeted Japanese audience. |
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Science Foundation Ireland funded researcher receives National Academy Award for Excellence in Teaching
Publication Date: 14/1/2009
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| Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded researcher, Professor Sylvia Draper of Trinity College’s School of Chemistry, was presented with an Award for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education by the National Academy for the Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning (NAIRTL) at a ceremony opened by Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Billy Kelleher on December 15 last.
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Minister Praises NUI Galway SFI CSET Science Essay Competition at
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
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| Friday, 9 January 2009: This year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition saw Leaving Cert student Daniel O’Reilly of Castleblayney College, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan receive top prize in an exciting National Science Essay Competition organised by NUI Galway. Daniel, who won a laptop, trophy and €500 science bursary for his school, received his prizes from the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe T.D., on the Science Foundation Ireland booth at the festival. |
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