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Professor Tomás Ryan among four researchers to secure €10.5 million European Research Council Synergy Grant

Prof. Ryan, from Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, is among a four-strong, international team of researchers who will now seek to discover how memory may control the immune system.

12 Nov 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Trinity spinout Oghma wins €500,000 to help turn scattered data into scientific breakthroughs

Oghma has developed an AI platform for scientific R&D that rapidly processes unstructured, scattered data into a useable form.

4 Nov 2026

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity student awarded 2026 Hamilton Prize in Mathematics

Artem Tarasenko, who is studying theoretical physics, received the 2026 Hamilton Prize in Mathematics last week as part of the Royal Irish Academy’s annual Hamilton Day celebration.

21 Oct 2026

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Students

Trinity chair warns politicians that universities are "on a very real cliff-edge"

"The harsh reality is that State funding per student is now over 30% lower in real terms than in 2008. This country ranks 36th out of 37 OECD countries for investment in higher education as a share of GDP."

15 Oct 2026

Awards and Funding|Community|Society|Students

The Secret of Kells creators receive Trinity European Laureate Award

Cartoon Saloon received the award in recognition of all they have done in bringing the stories, imagination, creativity and artistic traditions of Ireland to audiences around the world.

7 Oct 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture

Trinity researcher to lead new European Research Council project focused on ancient microfossils

Dr Corentin Flament-Loron, from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, has won an ERC Starting Grant, which will support his investigations into one of the biggest questions in the history of life: when did complex cells first emerge on Earth?

1 Oct 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Seven Trinity research projects secure HRB investment

The funding comes as the HRB is investing €12 million in 29 investigator-led research projects to support innovative and internationally competitive research across patient-oriented research (POR), population health research (PHR) and health services research (HSR).

23 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

Trinity mathematicians celebrate Venice success of unique film project DAU

Professor Samson Shatashvili, University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847), and Maria Shtilmark, Research Assistant in Trinity’s School of Mathematics, were both closely involved in the extraordinary long-running film project DAU, whose director Ilya Khrzhanovsky received the Silver Lion for Best Director at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.

22 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture|Science

Three Trinity researchers receive funding from HRCI-HRB scheme

Mark Cunningham, Martin Barr and Michelle Spirtos received Health Research Board funding in collaboration with Epilepsy Ireland, Breakthrough Cancer Research and Muscular Dystrophy Ireland.

16 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

Trinity pair win European Research Council Starting Grants

Dr Casey Platnich and Dr Gabriela Kronemberger have won the highly prestigious awards, which are valued at €1.5 million each, and allow outstanding early career researchers to lead five-year, frontier projects.

3 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science