Research Newsletter - Issue 95: Good News
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Congratulations to Dr Jamie Taylor, School of Health and Human Performance, who secured funding from the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) to investigate The enablers and barriers for coaches aiming to progress towards high performance coaching in Ireland. Dr Taylor and his colleagues Dr Robin Taylor and Dr Aine MaNamara, School of Health and Human Performance, will work together with the IRFU on this collaborative research project.
Congratulations to Prof Veronica Lambert, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, and Dr Siobhán O'Connor, School of Health and Human Performance, who have both been successful in the Health Research Board Secondary Analysis Projects Call.
Prof Lambert is the Project Lead on the project Investigating a data driven approach to inform population based resource allocation for improved equity in primary care services in Ireland. To complete the project, she will work together with DCU colleagues Prof Michelle Butler and Dr Emma Finlay, as well as, Dr Austin Warters and his colleagues in the Health Services Executive CHO9.
Dr O'Connor is the Project Lead on the project Riding Towards Safety: Advancing Concussion Identification, Prevention and Care in Irish Horse-Racing and is working with co-applicants from the University of Galway, the Sports Clinic, and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board.
Both projects will commence in October 2024 and will run for 24 months.
Congratulations to Prof Federico Fabbrini, School of Law and Government, for the successful outcome of his application for funding for a Jean Monnet Network on internal policy: an economy that works for people: Project to Research Options for Strengthening Prosperity and Economic Resilience in the EU (PROSPER). The network brings together experts in economics, law, politics and social sciences from 12 universities in 12 EU countries.
Congratulations to Prof Christian Kaunert and Dr Sarah Leonard, School of Law and Government, who lead DCU’s participation in a Jean Monnet Network on external policy: EU- Latin America: United in Knowledge: EU-Latin America Academic Synergies (EULAS). This project brings together 25 partners from the EU (10), Latin America (14) and the Caribbean (1). The network aims to promote dialogue and understanding between the EU and Latin American and Caribbean regions.
The projects will start in the autumn and run for 36 months.
Congratulations to the DCU researchers who have been successful in securing awards through the SFI Frontiers for the Future (Awards) 2022 call:
Dr Karsten Fleischer (School of Physical Sciences) will co-lead the project Nanolaminates: Synthetic High Performance Materials (Lasima), which proposes a novel methodology that will enable known, sustainable materials to perform beyond their intrinsic capacity. The project will develop novel multi-layered materials to overcome each of their limitations, creating metamaterials with enhanced properties far beyond the constituents.
Prof. Martin Clynes (lead) and Dr Finbarr O’Sullivan (co-lead) (School of Biotechnology) for project Investigating The Biological Roles Of Polyamines in Cho And Other Cells, which will investigate how optimising cell nutrition with molecules called polyamines may be used to improve productivity of biopharmaceuticals by animal cells.
Prof. Silvia Giordani (School of Chemical Sciences) for project Bio-Inspired Functionalization Of Nanoplatforms For Targeted Delivery Of Therapeutics, which by developing methodologies for successfully addressing the challenge for every pharmacological therapeutic process to deliver the exact amount of a drug, at an accurate rate, to precise location within a complex organism, will make game-changing contributions to personalised medicine, to disease detection and to new delivery modes that maximise benefits to the patient whilst limiting collateral cellular damage. This project seeks to develop unique biocompatible nanoplatforms with diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic functions.