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The ARC Hub for Therapeutics is a national initiative that accelerates cutting-edge biomedical research into real-world therapies launched in 2025.

Congratulations to Dylan Ryan who recently secured a prestigious Wellcome Career Development Award valued at around €2.5 million. The 8-year project will focus on uncovering how mitochondrial DNA mutations reshape immune responses and specifically will investigate why people with inherited mitochondrial disorders are particularly vulnerable to severe infections.

Congratulations to Dr Mary Canavan on being included among the 21 new members of the Young Academy Ireland (YAI) at the Royal Irish Academy last week. Dr Canavan will begin a four-year term, working on initiatives that strengthen research and enrich cultural life across the island of Ireland. We wish Mary well with her future endeavours!

Congratulations to Sinead O’Rourke (of Aisling Dunne’s group) and Fay Ma (of Ed Lavelle’s group) from the School of Biochemistry and Immunology who graduated on 18 March from the Aurora Women in Leadership Programme.

Dr Anne McGettrick Dillon who won a Sustainability Leadership Award, on behalf of the O’Neill lab.

Thanks to Prof Cliona O’Farrelly and postgraduate students Jessica Davis and Anna Bessenyei who flew the flag for our school at Higher Options recently.

Trinity to headquarter new €31.6 million Research Ireland ARC Hub for Therapeutics. Vincent Kelly, Professor in Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology, will direct the ARC Hub for Therapeutics, which will be headquartered in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute.

Congratulations to Dr Mary Canavan, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, was highly commended in the Early Career Researcher of the Year category.

The School community gathered in TBSI for a Research Day, to celebrate successes in research in the school and further foster internal collaboration.

Congrats to Colm Cunningham, Aisling Dunne and Mary Canavan who have each been awarded funding in the Health Research Board’s (HRB) most recent Investigator-Led Projects (ILP) award scheme. Each project will be funded for a maximum of four years.

Workshop on Supporting People in Distress.

Congratulations to our new fellows Derek Nolan, Vincent Kelly and Colm Cunningham.

The Keith Tipton Medal for Postgraduate Research for 2023 was awarded to Róisín Lynch.