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Dean's Research Initiatives Fund

The 2019-20 the Faculty of Health Sciences Dean's Research Initiatives Fund was awarded to three resesarch projects. The Research Initiatives Fund aims to advance the research priorities of Trinity College’s Strategic Plan, raise the national and international profile of the University and increase receipt of Horizon 2020 and HRB awards, as well as other funding. It awards investigators with seed funding that provides the foundation necessary to secure extramural funding for cutting edge, innovative and transformative research. The Principal Investigator must be a member of the academic or research staff of the Faculty of Health Sciences in Trinity College.

A high volume of quality applications were received from across all four Schools in the Faculty. It is with great pleasure that we announce three winners of the 2019-20 Faculty of Health Sciences Dean's Research Initiatives Fund:

PROJECT TITLE: Early biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome.

FOCUS AREA: Ageing

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S) AND RESEARCH TEAM:
Dr. Eimear McGlinchey, Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability, School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD
Prof Mary McCarron, Professor of Ageing and Intellectual Disability, School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD
Prof Philip McCallion, Director of the School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia
Prof Rob Whelan, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, TCD

PROJECT TITLE: CRISPR-CAS9: the next-generation CAncer cell DNA damaging agent

FOCUS AREA: Cancer

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S) AND RESEARCH TEAM:
Principal Investigator (PI): Dr Laure Marignol
Co-Investigator: Dr Adriele Prina-Mello

PROJECT TITLE: From Chemistry to Clinic: Increasing the Solubility and Stability of Promising Drugs for Gastrointestinal Cancers

FOCUS AREA: Cancer

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S) AND RESEARCH TEAM:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Niamh O’Boyle, Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
Co-Investigator: Prof. Jacintha O’Sullivan, Professor in Translational Oncology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.
Co-Investigator: Prof. Breandán Kennedy, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin.