2021 News

During the depths of lockdown 2020, Dr Megan Hanlon, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, started a podcast.

Dr Peter May is a health economist based in the Centre for Health Policy and Management in Trinity College Dublin.

More than 2,700 people are diagnosed with lung cancer each year in Ireland, and lung cancer accounts for approximately 1 in 5 of all cancer related deaths.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes it increasingly hard to breathe.

Trinity School of Medicine researchers provide unique insight into joint inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

While the historical advice to cancer patients was mainly to rest and avoid exercise, there is now compelling evidence showing that physical activity is not only safe for cancer survivors, but improves quality of life whilst reducing anxiety, fatigue, and depression.

Festival drug-related deaths are a growing public health concern.

TILDA is a large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland, the overarching aim of which is to make Ireland the best place in the world to grow old. TILDA collects information on all aspects of health, economic and social circumstances from people aged 50 and over in a series of data collection waves once every two years.

You may have heard of ‘Cycle TO Work’ but Trinity School of Medicine researchers are interested in a more original idea, coined ‘Cycle AT Work’.

Researchers from Tallaght University Hospital studied how well Irish patients with type 1 diabetes comply with physical activity guidelines, and what the barriers to compliance were.

School of Medicine PhD candidate Maria Davern is heading Stateside to take up a post-doctoral research position at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School with Professor Anthony Letai.

To coincide with Child Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke to Dr Michael Capra, Paediatric Oncologists at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, and Trinity Senior Clinical Lecturer (Paediatrics).

Trinity College Dublin Assistant Professor in Physiology, Dr Tamara Boto, was co-author on a study that reviewed our understanding of gene expression changes due to memory consolidation.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Medical Students published a review on the effects of the pandemic on the wellbeing of older adults

School of Medicine PhD researcher found that surgeons were already sleep deprived before their on-call shifts and were even more sleep-deprived afterwards, and crucially, that sleep deprivation impacted surgical performance.

Ussher Assistant Professor Gareth Brady, Dr William McCormack and colleagues have published their research on a dynamic, integrated screening system for measuring the effectiveness of antibodies against a key protein from SARS-CoV2. The research was published in Viruses

Kate Smyth talks with Dr Suzanne Cloonan, Associate Professor in Respiratory Biochemistry in the School of Medicine, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, and Tallaght University Hospital

To coincide with World Ovarian Cancer Day, we spoke to Dr Sharon O’Toole, a Senior Research Fellow who is researching ovarian cancer in Trinity College Dublin. Dr O’Toole coordinates the national awareness campaign for ovarian cancer for World Ovarian Cancer Day. She works closely with over 20 groups across Ireland to increase awareness of the disease.

School of Medicine PhD student publishes column in Nature on how her background in philosophy has improved her scientific reasoning.

PhD candidate Susan Ward is researching symptomatic hypermobility in children.

For National Arthritis Week, we caught up with Professor Ursula Fearon regarding her research in the area of rheumatoid arthritis.

Meet our School of Medicine researcher who is focusing on developing solutions for the destruction of cancer cells.

On World Autism Awareness Day Dr Ciara Molloy, a Research Fellow in the Autism and Rare Neurodevelopmental Research Group in Trinity College Dublin, spoke to us about the storybook they developed for families of children with NRXN1 deletions.

Meet our School of Medicine researcher who is investigating new non-animal technologies to replace animal studies in cancer and lung toxicity research.

Although Tuberculosis, or TB, killed nearly as many people as COVID-19 (approx. 1.8 million) in 2020, it did not receive as much media and public attention.

PhD candidate Andrew Sheppard is researching new types of therapy for oesophageal cancer.

Brain tumours arise from the abnormal growth of cells in the brain (neurons), with roughly 500 people every year in Ireland diagnosed with a tumour that arises from cells inside the brain.

PhD candidate Croí Buckley is researching the role of cellular metabolism in the response of rectal cancer to radiation therapy.

PhD candidate Rikke Siersbaek is researching the delivery of equitable healthcare access for homeless adults with complex needs.

Tallaght University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, and St James’s Hospital collaborated on chronic pancreatitis genetic study.

PhD candidate Naomi Algeo is researching cancer survivorship and employment

A ‘one stop’ health surveillance clinic for children with Down Syndrome

PhD candidate Jack Banks is exploring digital solutions for epilepsy management.

The ink has hardly dried on her PhD thesis but outstanding research student Roisin McMackin, is already on the cusp of being a world-class neuroscientist.

Researchers from Trinity have discovered a key mechanism underlying bacterial skin colonisation in atopic dermatitis, which affects millions around the globe.Researchers from Trinity have discovered a key mechanism underlying bacterial skin colonisation in atopic dermatitis, which affects millions around the globe.