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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar launches Irish-led €10 million project to deliver ‘precision medicine’ for Motor Neuron Disease

The programme will result in advanced data-driven prediction models for progression of the disease in patients and next-generation data analysis that facilitates clinical insights and treatment. This unique programme brings together clinicians, computer scientists, information engineers, technologists, and data scientists.

1 Mar 2022

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Trinity condemns invasion of Ukraine

Trinity College Dublin condemns the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people at this most difficult time. The university is currently offering support to students, staff and other members of the Trinity community impacted by the crisis.

27 Feb 2022

New research underlines environmental impact of hand-sanitising practices during the COVID-19 pandemic

The use of hand sanitising gels and increased hand-washing practices throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the environment and—by extension—public health.

25 Feb 2022

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Shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize announced

This is the fourth year of the prize, which is awarded annually for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language.

24 Feb 2022

New therapeutic options for childhood inflammatory bowel disease

Researchers from Trinity’s School of Medicine, working closely with paediatric gastroenterologists at CHI-Crumlin, hope their work will advance efforts to support IBD patients with a new therapeutic option.

23 Feb 2022

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Leading researchers and inventors celebrated at Trinity Innovation Awards

Trinity’s leading researchers and inventors were recognised for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the 2021 Trinity Innovation Awards, which were deferred from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. John O’Leary, Professor of Pathology, received the Provost Innovation Award.

22 Feb 2022

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Trinity goes plant-based for 20th anniversary of Green Week

The week-long series of events will focus on the problems with, and solutions to our food systems from farm to fork.

21 Feb 2022

Scientists pinpoint genetic target with promise for treating many forms of blindness

The scientists have highlighted that a specific gene (SARM1) is a key driver in the damage that ultimately leads to impaired vision (and sometimes blindness), and—in a disease model—showed that deleting this gene protects vision.

17 Feb 2022

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Pollution and teenage mental health, researchers call for further investigation

A systematic review has been conducted by researchers from the Trinity Centre for Global Health on how pollution exposure impacts teenage mental health.

17 Feb 2022

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Substantial inequalities in children’s engagement with remote schooling during first lockdown

A new study has shown that Irish primary school children were more engaged with remote schooling during the first Covid-19 lockdown if they had access to adequate digital technologies and had help from parents and teachers.

16 Feb 2022

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Climate change and extreme weather will have complex effects on disease transmission

New research shows temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways, and these organisms are influenced by the type of variation and the average background temperature it is applied to.

15 Feb 2022

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Behind the Headlines panel asks if we are ‘Falling out of Love with Dublin?’

A discussion held on the planning and civic issues threatening Dublin and its historic landscape took place online Wednesday, 9 February 2022, at the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of its latest ‘Behind the Headlines” discussion.

14 Feb 2022

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Brain tumour related epilepsy: merging basic science with clinical practice

Professor Mark Cunningham, the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of the Neurophysiology of Epilepsy in the School of Medicine, talks about his research to coincide with International Epilepsy Day.

14 Feb 2022

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17 candidates to contest University of Dublin Seanad bye-election

The bye-election is being held to fill the vacancy left by Labour TD Ivana Bacik after she was elected to the Dáil last year. This will be the first bye-election for the University of Dublin constituency since 1979.

11 Feb 2022

Stress caused by poverty directly impacts both children and parents

A new study led by a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin has found that economic pressure and psychological distress caused by economic hardship leads to arguments about money between parents and children and between mothers and fathers in two-parent families.

10 Feb 2022

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‘Behind the Headlines’ panel discussion asks are we falling out of love with Dublin?

Entitled ‘Falling out of Love with Dublin?’ Trinity Loon Room Hub's latest ‘Behind the Headlines’ discussion asks: where next for the capital’s civic future?

9 Feb 2022

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Trinity receives Government funding for its European University Alliance

As a member of the CHARM-EU Alliance, Trinity will receive €442,000 which will help to implement and sustain a joint strategy with its fellow partner universities.

8 Feb 2022

Five Trinity researchers win European Research Council Proof of Concept grants

Professors Valeria Nicolosi, Tríona Lally, Anna Davies, John Goold and Dr Matthew Campbell will each use funding of €150,000 to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.

7 Feb 2022

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Trinity scientists hopeful for new lung cancer treatments

To coincide with World Cancer Day we spoke to Dr Martin Barr, from the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute, about his research into drug resistance and the development of new drug candidates for this disease.

4 Feb 2022

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Virtual recreation of 1922 art exhibition that launched the Irish Free State onto world stage

100 years on from the opening of the Exposition D’Art Irlandais in Paris, the 'Seeing Ireland: 1922' project recovers this foundational moment in Irish art history.

28 Jan 2022

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