Innovation - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

UKCRF Poster Prize winning entry from the Wellcome-HRB CRF at St James’s Hospital

The prize is an acknowledgment of the hard work and continuous efforts of the CRF to improve its processes, and validates the dedication that the CRF put into enhancing the quality of their work and patient care.

30 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation

Taha Yasseri named inaugural Workday Professor for Technology and Society at Trinity and TU Dublin

Professor Yasseri, who takes up his role on August 1 2024, will also be Director of a new TCD-TU Dublin joint centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines.

15 Jul 2024

Innovation|Research|Science

Three-day hackathon set to spark new ideas for quantum technologies

The hackathon is organised by the Trinity Quantum Alliance, which comprises a group of researchers from academia and industry working together on research and education projects in quantum science and technology.

1 Jul 2024

Innovation|Research|Science|Society

St James’s Hospital celebrates 40th anniversary of Ireland's first bone marrow transplant

Home to the National Adult Stem Cell Transplant Centre, over 3,750 stem cell and bone marrow transplants have taken place at the hospital since 1984

10 Jun 2024

Community|Health|Innovation|Research

Trinity spinout Altach secures €1.2 million investment to transform treatments for cartilage injuries

Founded in 2022 and originating from pioneering research at Trinity, Altach has developed a novel biomimetic scaffold made from Type II collagen.

23 May 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Government announces €104 million investment for science research

Trinity is a partner institution with three of the four research centres announced today by Science Foundation Ireland as recipients of the funding.

14 May 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

ESB and Trinity’s ADAPT and CONNECT research centres to accelerate technology innovation in energy sector

The research involves two main projects with a goal of enabling large energy users to make better energy choices, helping the environment and supporting the Government's green agenda.

25 Mar 2024

Environment|Innovation|Research

Laidlaw Foundation to fund new research and innovation library at Trinity

The new research and innovation library will be Trinity’s first stand-alone digital library and is expected to open in 2027, focusing on embracing modern and collaborative working and studying approaches.  

19 Mar 2024

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Students

Trinity co-hosts Women in STEMM Summit 2024

The resounding success of the summit co-hosted by the School of Physics underscores the importance of fostering diversity and inclusivity in STEMM fields.

7 Mar 2024

Innovation|Research|Science

Alpaca wins Learnovate and Amazon Web Services accelerator programme

The EdTech Accelerator Programme for learning technology start-ups ran from December 5, 2023 to February 20, 2024 with ten companies involved.

21 Feb 2024

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Scientists develop colour-changing dyes that light up cellular activity

This work, which enables "time travel" within cells, may revolutionise bio-sensing and imaging approaches. The dyes promise to have multiple medical applications, as well as uses beyond chemistry and biology.

15 Feb 2024

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity bioengineer wins ERC Proof of Concept Award to develop non-surgical lower back pain treatment

Professor Conor Buckley’s project iDISC uses next-generation injectable biomaterials for tissue repair. The development of injectable biomimetic hydrogel systems may facilitate earlier interventions aimed at halting the degenerative process.

18 Jan 2024

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

LUMA Vision secures US $22 million in new financing

The Bioinnovate Ireland and Trinity spinout will use the funding to secure FDA approval and advance development of its 4D cardiac imaging and navigation platform.

18 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Health|Innovation

University alliance to foster impactful translational research

The Translational Medicine Alliance Ireland (TMAI) brings together the strengths of multiple institutions, creating a collaborative ecosystem to address the complex hurdles associated with translating scientific discoveries into practical healthcare applications and interventions.

3 Dec 2023

Health|Innovation|Research

Trinity Innovation Awards celebrate academics’ contribution to research and innovation

Dr Bruce Murphy, a prolific innovator and translational researcher working in medical device design, received the headline Provost’s Innovation Award at the annual event that brings Trinity’s stellar innovation and enterprise community together.

8 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels delivers masterclass to Trinity computer science students

Amazon.com Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Dr Werner Vogels delivered a Masterclass entitled ‘From Research to Production: Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to the Real World’ to students on the MSc programme in Computer Science on his recent visit to Trinity.

26 Oct 2023

Innovation|Research|Students

Learnovate and Amazon launch accelerator programme for EdTech firms

The EdTech Accelerator Programme is a collaboration between Learnovate, a leading global future of work and learning research hub in Trinity College Dublin, and AWS.

16 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation

Bí i d’abhatár, bain triail as bheith i do scríobhaí meánaoiseach agus cláraigh do dhianchampa luibheolaíochta ag Féile START

Is cuid d’Oíche Thaighdeoirí na hEorpa í Féile START (Start Talking About Research Today), imeacht poiblí ar fud na hEorpa, ina dtaispeántar an éagsúlacht taighde agus an tionchar a bhíonn aige ar shaol laethúil saoránach ar bhealaí spraíúla spreagúla. I mbliana beidh imeachtaí á reáchtáil in 26 tír ar fud na hEorpa.

29 Sep 2023

Arts|Innovation|Research|Science|Society

Academy of the Near Future wins Silver at Seoul Smart City prize

Academy of the Near Future (ANF) has been awarded silver in the ‘Human-Centricity’ category at the Seoul Smart City Prize in South Korea. ANF is a collaborative initiative between Dublin City Council and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity.

28 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Sustainability

Does AI have a right to free speech?

Granting AI free speech rights would both support and undermine our freedom of thought, writes Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones, Psychiatry, in this piece originally published in The Conversation.

28 Sep 2023

Innovation|Research|Science