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Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?

On Thursday 23rd March, Professor Mark Cunningham, Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy and the Head of the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled “Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?”. The lecture will take place in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at 6pm, and you can register for it here. The lecture is free and open to the public.

9 Mar 2023

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Profs Jane Ohlmeyer and Jonathan N. Coleman receive RIA Gold Medals

The Trinity Professors were presented with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals by Senator Malcolm Byrne at a ceremony in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

8 Mar 2023

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Fresh understanding of ageing in the brain offers hope for treating neurological diseases

Scientists from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) have shed new light on ageing processes in the brain. By linking the increased presence of specialised immune cells to conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury for the first time, they have unearthed a possible new target for therapies aimed at treating age-related neurological diseases.

8 Mar 2023

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Trinity and Cambridge scientists unearth potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases

Scientists working in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and – in doing so – unearthed a potential new therapeutic target.

8 Mar 2023

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Trinity supports Harvard University in global tuberculosis research consortium

Trinity researchers provide unique human model to help unpick the mechanism of human lung immune corruption by the tuberculosis bacterium.

8 Mar 2023

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