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Welcome to the School of Medicine
The School of Medicine is Ireland’s leading medical school and ranks as one of the world’s top medical schools (QS World Ranking by Subject 2025 – 83rd for Medicine). The School of Medicine is the leading research school in Trinity, home to over 800 highly diverse researchers and spanning 21 medical and scientific disciplines. The School of Medicine is a multidisciplinary school comprising Medicine, Radiation Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Human Health and Disease, and Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Over 90% of the academic staff are highly active in research. Fifty per cent of senior principal investigators are clinical academics combining their clinical commitments with their academic activities.
Head of School welcome message
Prof. Colin Doherty gives a brief overview of what it means to study at the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.
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Memory tool for early recognition of rare types of lymphoma
Trinity School of Medicine researchers, along with UK collaborators, have created a simple but powerful diagnostic tool, which they believe will change a patient’s life in the diagnosis of a type of blood cancer that shows up on
07 Nov 2025
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No benefit of ketamine for patients hospitalised with depression
A newly published study has found that repeated ketamine infusions for treating depression have revealed no extra benefit for ketamine when added onto standard care for people admitted to hospital for depression.
29 Oct 2025
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Study reveals how a stubborn lung infection evolves inside patients over years
Researchers wanted to know what allows the infection to hang on or come back, and whether it develops new tricks or resistances while living inside the lungs.
29 Oct 2025
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Immunotherapy before surgery offers a potential new treatment for rare cancer
An early phase clinical trial published in Nature Medicine show that patients with mesothelioma - a rare cancer of the lining of the lung - who received a combination of two immunotherapy drugs before surgery had successful surger
10 Sep 2025
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HRB invests a further €1 million into dementia and neurodegenerative research
Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI), led by Professor Seán Kennelly, Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin has been awarded additional funding
06 Aug 2025
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Trinity School of Medicine secures professor specialising in cerebral palsy
Philanthropic funding through the Cerebral Palsy Foundation has enabled the nomination of the first Associate Professor of Cerebral Palsy at Trinity College School of Medicine.
06 Aug 2025
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Pioneering Genomics: Dr. Niamh Ryan Secures Research Ireland’s Pathway Award for Multi-Ancestry Neuropsychiatric Research
Trinity College Dublin is proud to announce that four of its researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under the Research Ireland’s Pathway funding programme.
17 Jul 2025
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Immunotherapy before surgery boosts long term survival in lung cancer, trial shows
Results from a clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that patients with lung cancer who received an immunotherapy along with standard chemotherapy before surgery had improved long term survival
04 Jun 2025
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Trinity researchers identify biomarkers that could help us detect pancreatic cancer
To coincide with World Cancer Day 2025, we looked at the Maher Lab Group in Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute and the work of Dr. Laura Kane, Research Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Professor Barbara Ryan, Consultant
05 Feb 2025
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New advocacy group aims to develop cohesive concussion guidelines across all sporting codes
Trinity is today hosting the inaugural meeting of a new concussion advocacy group, which brings together researchers, medics, sportspeople and charities, and puts the burning issue of concussive brain injuries in sports
18 Mar 2025
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