Professor Michael Monaghan, from the School of Engineering, will develop a new platform of biomaterials that, by virtue of their material chemistry and geometrical design, will treat patients with heart muscle injury after a heart attack. Extending to injuries and providing structural support to damaged tissues, the work will provide better quality of life to patients. The multidisciplinary approach where biomedical engineering, computer science, and immunology intersect, will employ novel imaging technologies for the first time in Ireland.
Professor Kate Maguire, from the School of Physics, will work to provide the first complete census of the multiple ways that white dwarfs can explode by mapping observations to their explosion physics. This will be crucial for defining new precision samples for cosmology, as well as determining the rates and contributions of white-dwarf explosions to the origin of the elements.
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Original Article: Trinity College Dublin, Author: Thomas Deane