Research Newsletter - Issue 103: Good News
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Congratulations to the DCU undergraduate students and their supervisors who were successful in securing summer scholarships from the Health Research Board. These students will receive payments from the HRB to undertake eight week-long research projects in DCU during the summer. Further details on the students and their projects will be included in a future edition of the newsletter. We wish them the best of luck with their projects over the coming months.
Congratulations to five DCU academics and their teams who were successful in progressing to the Grow Phase of the National Challenge Fund. The three DCU teams are among 10 research teams nationally to become finalists as part of the National Challenge Fund – a competition-based and solution-focused funding programme. The selected teams will have the opportunity for additional funding in the final phase of the programme, where prize funding of €2 million will be on offer to the most competitive teams under each Challenge.
The successful DCU team for the Sustainable Communities Challenge is:
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Dr Susan Kelleher (School of Chemical Sciences) - Team Lead; Dr Jennifer Gaughran (School of Physical Sciences) - Team Co-Lead. Project: “PUreTex: Creating Polyurethane Insulation from Recycled Textiles”
The successful DCU teams for the Future Food Systems Challenge are:
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Dr David O'Connor (School of Chemical Sciences) - Team Lead; Prof. Anne Parle-McDermot (School of Biotechnology) - Team Co-Lead. Project: “AgSENSE - Agriculture Fungal Sensing”
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Prof. Enda McGlynn (School of Physical Sciences) - Team Co-Lead; Dr Niall Maloney (Atlantic Technological University) - Team Lead. Project: “NanoSA - Using Nanostructures for Sustainable Aquaculture”.
Congratulations to the DCU teams and best of luck with their projects over the next 12 months!
Congratulations to two DCU academics who were successful in securing Research Ireland research infrastructure awards. Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme aims to contribute to the advancement of high-quality and high-impact research activities across Ireland including building partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland, across academia and enterprise.
The two DCU funded projects are:
- “Advanced Material Characterisation and Imaging Platform”, led by Dr Karsten Fleischer (School of Physical Sciences), will enhance material analysis capabilities with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for various applications in ICT, energy, and medical devices
- “C-Trap: A Dynamic Single Molecule Platform for Chemical Biology and Biophysics”, led by Prof. Andrew Kellett (School of Chemical Sciences), will enable single-molecule analysis for understanding molecular mechanisms of diseases, aiding biopharmaceutical and therapeutic research
Congratulations to both awardees!