Trinity Researchers Secure €4.7m SFI Investment in Scientific Research
Posted on: 29 April 2015
The Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD has announced funding for five Trinity College Dublin researchers through Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme. Trinity secured €4.7 million for five major research projects out of 23 awards.
The SFI Investigator Programme aims to generate impact for Ireland, both societal and economic, through supporting world-class scientific research. The Programme will provide €30 million in funding over a four to five year period, for 23 research projects in key priority areas for Ireland involving over 100 researchers.
The process for selection involved competitive peer review by 400 international scientists across a number of thematic areas of national and international importance. The call received a high application rate, with 131 proposals reviewed.
Speaking at the announcement, Minister English said: “This funding provides assistance to individual researchers to advance their investigations and address key research questions in sectors such as energy, medicine, food and nutrition, technology and agriculture. It allows researchers to further their careers and build partnerships with leading industry partners who also benefit from access to some of the leading academic talents on this island. The Investigators Programme is an important contributor to Ireland’s credentials as a research leader in a number of sectors”.
The Trinity College Dublin recipients of the SFI Investigators Programme are:
Professor Anne-Marie Healy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Development of Fixed Dose Combination Products using Advanced Pharmaceutical Processing Technologies
Professor Seamus Martin, School of Genetics and Microbiology
Pro-inflammatory ‘Cytokine fingerprinting’ for the stratification of Psoriasis patients for cytokine-targeted biologic therapy
Professor Michael Rowan, School of Medicine and TCIN
Alzheimer’s disease patient-derived synaptic plasticity-disrupting soluble protein assemblies
Dr Marco Ruffini, School of Computer Science and Statistics and CTVR
O’SHARE: An open-access SDN-driven architecture enabling multi-operator and multi-service convergence in shared optical access networks
Professor Stefano Sanvito, School of Physics and CRANN
Atomistic simulators for magnetic memories design: MMDesign
