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Trinity’s rising researchers receive IRC funding for pioneering projects
Funding for 49 Trinity researchers and their projects has been announced as part of the €24.6m in funding under the Irish Research Council’s (IRC) flagship Government of Ireland programmes.
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Researchers join National Challenge Fund to help Ireland prepare for green transition and digital transformation
Six researchers from Trinity – who make up four teams – are among those taking part in the latest round of the National Challenge Fund. While pursuing different projects, they share the goal of helping Ireland prepare for its green transition and digital transformation.
Dr Luca Matrà wins European Research Council award to assess how life may emerge on other planets
Dr Luca Matrà has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant valued at €1.5 million. He will use the funds to support a five-year research project aimed at understanding how exoplanets and exocomets can affect the presence of volatile molecules that could provide the potential building blocks of life on other Earth-like planets.
Prof Daniel Kelly has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant
AMBER PI and Professor of Tissue Engineering in Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE) Dr Daniel J Kelly has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant in the second round of the 2023 competition.
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Dr Tamara Boto wins Wellcome Career Development Award 2023
Assistant Professor in Physiology, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dr Tamara Boto studies how features of importance, or salience, are processed in the brain, and how they affect memories, in health and disease

Prof Christine Casey wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
€2.5 million grant awarded to explore collective achievement in classical architecture of Ireland & Britain

Trinity Researchers among 47 teams awarded SFI National Challenge funding
Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, has today (12 June) welcomed 47 new teams to compete in the €65 million fund to work on solutions to major environmental and societal issues.

Trinity researchers recognised in latest SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme Awards
Twelve Trinity projects have received funding this week from Science Foundation Ireland across a range of research disciplines.

HRB DIFA 2023
Important new clinical research awards to address health challenges
Dr Pablo Gracia secures ERC Consolidator Grant
DIGINEQ study to explore how adolescent digital use is linked to social inequalities in well-being outcomes.
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Three Trinity researchers awarded SFI Industry RD&I Fellowships
Dr Abdulla Sukhananazerin, Dr Brian Jennings, and Dr Srikanth Kolagatla have each been awarded fellowships under the SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme.
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Jane Ohlmeyer wins prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities has won a highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million.

Prison oversight project wins ERC Proof of Concept grant
Dr Mary Rogan, School of Law, has won a highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant to continue her work on human rights and prison oversight.
Dr Susan Murphy wins highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant award
The funding of €1.5 million will help Trinity team transform the field of international development governance theory and practice.
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Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant awards
Drs Sarah Doyle and Marius de Leeuw have been successful in the latest round of results, which have been released today. They will explore how we can harness our immune system to fight blindness and seek models that could help us understand and explore uncharted sub-fields of physics.

Trinity duo win ERC Proof of Concept grants
Drs Sarah McCormack and David Finlay have won highly competitive Proof of Concept grants and will now use the funds to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.
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Trinity researchers receive SFI Research Infrastructure awards
The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland.

Trinity researchers and staff honoured in IRC 'Research Ally' awards
Nine Trinity researchers and members of staff were honoured in the ‘Research Ally’ category at this year’s Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year awards.
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Trinity trio win Royal Society University Research Fellowships
Three researchers – Drs Lara McManus, Mark Mitchison and Matthew Walters – have won highly competitive Royal Society University Research Fellowships that will help them build their research careers at Trinity.

School of Medicine scoops 6 HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards
School of Medicine celebrates six HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards.

Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants
Dr Kenneth Silver, Dr Colm Delaney and Dr Elaine Corbett were among just seven researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted awards worth up to €5 million from the ERC.

Eleven Trinity researchers to receive Irish Research Council Laureate Awards
Eleven researchers from Trinity College Dublin were among the 48 successful applicants of the Irish Research Council (IRC) Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards announced today. The investment of almost €24 million in ‘curiosity-driven’ frontier research, will fund 48 ground-breaking research projects under the Irish Research Council’s Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme.