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.

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 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.

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.

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

€2.5 million grant awarded to explore collective achievement in classical architecture of Ireland & Britain

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.

Twelve Trinity projects have received funding this week from Science Foundation Ireland across a range of research disciplines.

Important new clinical research awards to address health challenges

DIGINEQ study to explore how adolescent digital use is linked to social inequalities in well-being outcomes.

Dr Abdulla Sukhananazerin, Dr Brian Jennings, and Dr Srikanth Kolagatla have each been awarded fellowships under the SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme.

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.

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.

The funding of €1.5 million will help Trinity team transform the field of international development governance theory and practice.

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.

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.

The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland.

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.

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 celebrates six HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards.

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 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.