Five School of Medicine researchers have been recognised as future research leaders with awards totalling €5.3 million made under the HRB Research Career Framework. The specific aim of the funding is to provide emerging researchers with opportunities to establish themselves as independent investigators.
Details of the awardees and their research projects are outlined below:.
Dr Alison Keogh, Clinical Medicine, Tallaght University Hospital
Mobility mapping: Working with people with multiple sclerosis to map real-world walking experiences to digital mobility outcome measures, to improve clinical assessment.
Emerging Investigator Award - Patient Oriented Research
Award Amount: €725,199
Dr Gina Leisching, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI), St James’s Hospital
Targeting Thromboinflammation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Emerging Investigator Award - Patient Oriented Research
Award Amount: €817,086
Caoileann Murphy, Dietician, Department of Physiology
Enhancing Wellbeing in Residential Care: a focus on Body Composition and Skeletal Muscle Function (RES-FIT)
Emerging Investigator Award - Patient Oriented Research
Award Amount: €818,880
Dr Antoinette O'Connor, Discipline of Medical Gerontology
Biomarkers in the identification of Alzheimer’s Disease in people with Down Syndrome (Bio-MinDS)
Emerging Clinician Scientist Award - Clinical Research
Award Amount: €1,340,039.90
Dr Gráinne Sheill, Discipline of Physiotherapy
Towards an evidence based and stakeholder informed model of rehabilitation for people with haematological cancer
Emerging Clinician Scientist Awards - Clinical Research
Award Amount: €668,936.72