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Trinity bioengineer secures Wellcome funding to develop new tissue engineering approach
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.
30 Aug 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science
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TILDA study reveals crucial insights on loneliness and death ideation among older adults
The research shows that loneliness in later life is associated with an increased risk of individuals wishing for their own death, but protective effects may include attending religious services and secular social activities.
28 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science
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AI-powered, big data research revolutionises understanding of autoimmune disease
New research, which uses semantic web and big data approaches thanks to a connection of patient registries across Europe, and which has just been published in The Lancet Rheumatology, provides evidence for improved diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.
27 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Research reveals environmental and disease factors can speed up the brain’s biological age
By integrating advanced brain clocks and deep learning models, researchers at Trinity have uncovered how environmental, socioeconomic, and health conditions can either accelerate or protect against brain aging, offering new directions for personalised health interventions.
26 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science|Society
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School of Medicine podcast cuts through the noise on health science
The Off-Script’ podcast is an intersection of medicine, science and society and explores deep questions about the health and well-being of Ireland and the world through conversations with a host of Trinity College experts.
22 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science|Society
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Bioengineers develop hybrid grafts to combat cardiovascular disease
Researchers from AMBER and Trinity, led by Dr David Hoey, have successfully replicated the behaviour of a blood vessel and its guiding structure to regenerate damaged tissue.
20 Aug 2024
Health|Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity welcomes Professor Karen Wiltshire as first CRH Chair of Climate Science
An expert in coastal research and a Trinity alumna, Professor Wiltshire returns to the university from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, where she served as Vice-Director in combination with a professorship in Shelf Sea Ecology at the University of Kiel.
19 Aug 2024
Environment|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Scientists revolutionise microscopy by reimagining the logic of imaging
Their new method significantly reduces the time and damaging radiation used to image fragile specimens.
2 Aug 2024
Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity researchers to receive Grow Phase funding under the National Challenge Fund
Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, announced the first nine teams to receive Grow Phase funding under the €65 million fund to work on solutions to major environmental and societal issues.
31 Jul 2024
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Ancient DNA analyses imply brucellosis evolved with development of farming
Scientists analysed ancient DNA extracted from an 8,000-year-old sheep bone and detected the Brucella melitensis pathogen. Brucellosis affects millions of people every year and causes significant harm to the welfare of livestock.
26 Jul 2024
Research|Science