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Newsletter // February 2016

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AMBER researcher awarded €2.5million ERC Consolidator Grant

Professor Valeria Nicolosi from the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre AMBER, has been awarded €2.5million ERC Consolidator Grant to create an innovative new type of energy storage device. Read More

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Ireland Seeks Future Research Leaders

Science Foundation Ireland has launched a recruitment-only programme designed to attract to Ireland outstanding new and emerging research leaders in both scientific and engineering domains, where candidates may have both academic and/or industry relevant backgrounds with a focus on research excellence with impact. Read more

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Spin-out company Tucana Health Ltd creates jobs in Cork

Tucana Health Ltd (Tucana), a spin-out from the APC Microbiome Institute in UCC, is to build a new research team in Cork. Tucana Health Ltd. was founded by Professors Fergus Shanahan and Paul O’Toole to investigate the composition of bacterial communities in the gut, and to use this information to aid the diagnosis and treatment of disease.Read more.

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Scientists Blueprint Promising Antimicrobial Candidate

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have provided the first crystal-clear molecular blueprint of Globomycin - an antibacterial candidate with promise in stemming the onrushing post-antibiotic tide. Read more

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Mexican Ambassador visits CONNECT Centre

At a recent visit to the CONNECT Centre, the Mexican Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Carlos García De Alba, praised the FORGE project which allows undergraduate students in Mexico to access European telecommunications testbed infrastructure, including the smart reconfigurable radio testbed at CONNECT’s headquarters at Dunlop Oriel House in Trinity. Read more

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Eureka! The Big Bang Query

Comedy and Science collide as host Neil Delamere putsTeam Captains, PJ Gallagher and Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and their teams of comedians and science personalities through their paces in this brand new science comedy quiz. Monday nights at 22:30 on RTÉ 2 starting March 14th. Read more

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Leap in Development of Clean, Renewable Fuels from Sunlight and Water

Researchers from Cork, Belfast and Stanford announce breakthrough in use of solar energy to split water molecules and produce fuels. Read more


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