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Wellcome Trust awards €5.3million to tackle fatal bloodstream infections
A team of Irish and UK Researchers, including Trinity’s Prof Rachel McLoughlin, have been granted a prestigious Wellcome Trust Discovery Award of €5.3 million to investigate the leading global cause of fatal bloodstream infections
Just how close are we to a cure for all cancers?
Prof Luke O’Neill writes from the International Union of Immunological Societies conference - the Olympics for immunology - in Cape Town, South Africa, on a new way of mobilising the immune system to allow our T cells attack tumours, which is saving lives
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Team based in TBSI unearths potential secret to viral resistance .
Scientists have unearthed a secret that may explain why some people are able to resist viral infections, having screened the immune systems of women exposed to hepatitis C (HCV) through contaminated anti-D transfusions given over 40 years ago in Ireland. Cliona O’Farrelly, Professor of Comparative Immunology in Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology, is the senior author of the research article. Cliona, who is based in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
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New machine-learning technique for classifying key immune cells .
The landmark research, which used human macrophages in experiments, was led by Michael Monaghan, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at TBSI. The work brought together biomedical engineers, computer scientists and immunologists and has just been published in leading journal eLife
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Many TBSI amongst the eleven TCD researchers who have been awarded €4 million to tackle global health challenges .
The newly announced Investigator-Led Projects for Health (ILP) 2022 from the Health Research Board (HRB) will drive advancements in treatments and therapies across a broad range of human health and disease including neurodegenerative disease, respiratory disease, bloodstream infection, arthritis, cancer, and depression
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Scientists create luminescent gels with multitude of applications from counterfeiting to bio-sensing .
Both Dr Oxana Kotova, who is first author of the published study, and Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, the senior author of the research article, are based in the School of Chemistry and AMBER and are located in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI)
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Centre for Biomedical Engineering at TBSI: Prof Michael Monaghan, Dr Matteo Solazzo and team have developed a low cost prototype wearable sensor for health care applications .
Researchers create prototype sponge-like sensor for personalised healthcare
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The immunologists, led by Dr Nigel Stevenson, Assistant Professor in Viral Immunology at TBSI, have discovered how SARS and MERS proteins block the induction of antiviral proteins, which prevents us from mounting a strong innate immune response against infection .
immunologists unravel battle plans of deadly coronaviruses
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TBSI professor Richard Porter links with Artelo to investigate Fatty Acid Binding Protein inhibition in cancer.
this is the second collaboration between Richard K Porter, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Immunology at TBSI and Artelo Biosciences"
Discovery of new immune process that regulates inflammation in human fat may help manage obesity. TCD Comms .
North-South Cancer Liquid Biopsies Research Programme. Irish Times.
Researchers discover new therapeutic target for severe asthma, lead investigator Luke O’Neill .
The findings sprang from an international collaboration involving scientists in Sydney, Beijing and Graz
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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar launches Irish-led €10 million project to deliver ‘precision medicine’ for Motor Neuron Disease .
ambitious academic, clinical and industry research programme that will provide new insights in our understanding of Motor Neuron Disease (MND), also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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Why do we forget? New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is actually a form of learning .
The scientists believe we learn to forget some memories while retaining others that are important
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Scientists discover how key protein drives our immune response against viruses .
Andrew Bowie, Professor of Innate Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, who is based in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, pictured here
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