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Featured Research
Shedding new light on eye disease
It’s sometimes said the eyes are windows into the soul - but with the right technology they can also offer insight...
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DCU at leading edge of lifelogging research
DCU this week hosted a TV film crew from the Discovery Channel who were visiting CLARITY to record scenes and to intervi...
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Layering success upon success
Prof Jonathan Coleman, SFI Researcher of the Year 2011 talks about his work, “In 10 years time, I’d like to look around me and see things like strong light plastics and efficient energy storage devices and know they are enabled by materials developed in Trinity.”
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Face of BIO 2011
Showcased on the Innovation Ireland stand at the recent BIO2011 conference was The Face of BIO, a project which wa...
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CLARITY Darts Ahead
Researchers in the Science Foundation Ireland funded research centre, CLARITY, are using new advances in intelligent wea...
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Regulating nuclear signalling in cancer
Research findings published recently in Nature Communications describe a completely new way in which TGFβ receptors...
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Equine sensing
Horse racing, also known as ‘The Sport of Kings’, is one of the world’s most popular sports attracting...
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Avoiding Internet congestion the smart way
Imagine if motorway traffic had to be suddenly routed through busy town centres – what kind of congestion an...
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Inflammation – a hot topic
What do you think when you hear the word ‘inflammation’? Redness and heat? The bodily response to injury or ...
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Systems biology – seeing the bigger picture
Suppose you wanted to figure out how a community works, but you only had a map of the houses and the phone listings of t...
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Open Calls
President of Ireland Young Researcher Award...
The President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) is Science Foundation Ireland's most prestigious award to recrui...
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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...
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SFI Conferences and Workshops...
Science Foundation Ireland’s Conference and Workshop Programme supports conferences and workshops which enable Iri...
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SFI Research Professorship Programme...
Programme Overview
Attracting outstanding research talent to Ireland is one of the principal ambitions of Science Found...
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SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership...
Summary
The vision of the Wellcome Trust, the UK-based global charity, is to achieve extraordinary improvemen...
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SFI ERC Support Programme...
The SFI ERC support programme supports the Irish host institutions of awardees of the ERC Starting and Advanced Grant sc...
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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...
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Press Releases
Tyndall researcher wins prestigious international honour...
February 16th 2012: Professor Jean Pierre Colinge, Head of the Micro-Nano Electronics Centre at Tyndall National Institu...
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Research Breakthrough Shows Promise in Offsetting Cornea Transplant Re...
Tuesday, 14 February, 2012: Success rates for cornea transplants could be greatly improved following a major advance in ...
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Lero signs research agreement with United Technologies Research Centr...
February 13th 2012- Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, has signed a research agreement with United Te...
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“Science forms and informs our path to economic recovery” – Irel...
EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Ms Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, has today (February 9th 2012) highlighte...
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Dublin to host International Science Hack Day 2012...
Dublin will be the 6th city in the world to host an International Science Hack Day after London, San Francisco, Mexico C...
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Science in the News
Researchers aim to cut risk of cornea transplant rejection...
The Irish Times - Tuesday, February 14, 2012 by CLAIRE O'CONNELL
RESEARCHERS IN Galway are developing a way to modify d...
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Transition year students decode Web design...
ComputeTY 2012 sees 50% uptake in Java programming stream
TechLife | 13 Feb 2012: DCU School of Computing in conj...
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Trinity team helping develop fold-up TV...
The Irish Times - Thursday, February 9, 2012 DICK AHLSTROM Science Editor
SCIENTISTS AT Trinity College Dublin are help...
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FutureProof: Faceblindness and Planets...
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TCD among research group awarded €3m for anti-inflammatory project...
The Journal
AN INTERNATIONAL research project involving scientists at Trinity College Dublin has been awarded €3 m...
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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 ...
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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...
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XMM-Newton Eleventh Announcement of Opportunity (AO-11)...
The European Space Agency has launched the eleventh "Announcement of Opportunity" and invite proposals for observa...
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Future Internet Award...
The European Future Internet Award is open again, the deadline is 16th September 2010
This award is an opportunity for ...
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