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Prof. Britto, from Trinity’s School of Mathematics, will work with three colleagues in an international project that seeks to develop new algorithmic methods with applications in mathematics, particle physics and gravity.

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programmes - The schemes support exceptional early-career researchers to pursue cutting-edge research with world-class potential in any discipline across the sciences, engineering, arts and humanities.

Eleven researchers across multiple disciplines of health science research have been awarded funding in the Health Research Board’s (HRB) most recent Investigator-Led Projects (ILP) award scheme, announced today. Each project will be funded for a maximum of four years.

Dr Johanna Vos and Dr Michael-John Dolan will respectively pursue research aimed at better understanding weather patterns in extrasolar worlds deep in the galaxy, and at uncovering the secrets of brain disorders and repair.

Dr Josephine Wu, from Trinity’s School of Engineering and the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, has secured a Wellcome Early Career Award to pursue a tissue engineering project that could provide an exciting new approach to regenerative medicine.

Two Trinity researchers have secured Science Foundation Ireland–Irish Research Council (SFI-IRC) Pathway awards worth a combined total of close to €1.2 million.

Dr Martin Worthington of Trinity’s School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies has won a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant.

The successful dozen will lead or co-lead a total of 11 STEM-related research projects via Science Foundation Ireland’s Frontiers for the Future programme, which is funded in collaboration with the Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

Eight Trinity research proposals secured funding under the recently announced 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships results.

Two researchers from Trinity – Dr John O’Donoghue and Cian McLoughlin – have won Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme funding to lead projects that will encourage a deeper understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

This female-led project brings together experts from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), the University of Exeter and the University of Bristol.

The funding, from the 2023 EPA call, will support innovations and the development and implementation of policies in Ireland, as well as developing research capacity in strategically important areas.

Professor Sakis Mantalaris from School of Pharmacy, a leading figure in cell therapy research, has been awarded €4.88 million as part of the prestigious Science Foundation Ireland Research Professorship Programme.

Trinity research team awarded €2.49m by the Health Research Board to investigate Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) which accounts for 20% of the nearly 65,000 people with dementia in Ireland, but fewer than 5% of those affected receive a formal diagnosis.

Professor Conor Buckley’s project iDISC uses next-generation injectable biomaterials for tissue repair. The development of injectable biomimetic hydrogel systems may facilitate earlier interventions aimed at halting the degenerative process.

Seven researchers across a range of disciplines at Trinity have been announced as successful applicants to the Irish Research Council (IRC) Advanced Laureate Awards (ALA) programme.

Professors Kate Maguire and Michael Monaghan will use the funding from the EU Horizon Europe programme to better understand how and why stars explode, and to create a new cardiac patch to regenerate heart muscle.

Three Trinity projects have received funding under the National Open Research Forum (NORF) as part of a drive to build national capacity and infrastructure for open research.

The awards, designed to support Ireland’s emerging research talent and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches, were announced this week by Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

The prestigious award valued at €2 million is the 6th Wellcome Career Development Award in Ireland and Northern Ireland and the second awarded to a Trinity researcher

The awards, designed to support Ireland’s emerging research talent and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches, were announced this week by Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Dr Cilian Ó’Maoldomhnaigh and Dr Robert Briggs have been awarded Clinician Scientist Fellowships from the Health Research Board (HRB) as part of a €6.4 million investment to support the career development of outstanding researchers in health and social care.

Ecologist Dr Richard Nair and immunologist Dr Craig McEntee have secured the awards, funded in Ireland by Science Foundation Ireland, are given to outstanding scientists in the early stages of their research careers who have the potential to become leaders in their field.

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.