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“Brain health, equity, and our shared planet” -- Global Brain Health Institute celebrates a decade of leadership, research and impact

Global leaders, researchers and innovators gathered at Trinity this week to explore how new thinking and emerging research are reshaping our understanding of brain health.

12 Jun 2026

Environment|Health|Research|Society

Sustainable aviation fuel supply remains structurally constrained

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, with collaborators SMBC and SMBC Aviation Capital, have published a new report outlining the key barriers and actions required to scale SAF production and support aviation’s path to decarbonisation.

11 Jun 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity to host Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies

Trinity will host two of the seven newly announced, Research Ireland-funded Rinn Centres – Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies – while acting as one of five coordinating institutions in a third (Rinn Artificial Intelligence).

10 Jun 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

The 100-year life: TILDA marks 20 years of research into ageing

At a public event, leading voices in research, policy and public life reflected on how Ireland is ageing, what TILDA has revealed over two decades, and how this evidence can help shape healthier, longer and more connected futures for generations to come.

9 Jun 2026

Community|Research|Society

New Trinity study reveals rapid evolution of cancers with shrunken genomes

Researchers at Trinity have found that a largely overlooked form of cancer evolution, which drives aggressive disease and poor patient outcomes, is far more widespread than previously thought.

2 Jun 2026

Health|Research|Science

Life under the shadow of regeneration in Dolphin House flats

Everyday life under the shadow of a major regeneration project is the subject of a new research project undertaken by researchers at the School of Social Work and Social Policy.

2 Jun 2026

Trinity researchers identify immune ‘energy signature’ linked to tuberculosis protection

The findings could help pave the way for improved TB monitoring tools and future therapies or vaccines that target how immune cells generate energy.

28 May 2026

Health|Research

"Something for everyone": Book club launches global reading of Ulysses in 80 days

“There is something for everyone, even if they don't read the 10-12 pages EVERY day”, said Cliona O’Farrelly, Professor of Comparative Immunology at Trinity College Dublin and the power behind the annual book club, whose 2026 Dublin readings take place in Unit18.

28 May 2026

Arts|Community|Culture|Society

Trinity to host new research on how immune system repairs brain

Prof. Denise Fitzgerald, from Trinity’s School of Medicine, has been awarded €6.26 million Research Professorship funding from Research Ireland to investigate how ageing affects the ways the immune system helps repair brain tissue in illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

27 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Tá móramh soiléir sa dá dhlínse anois i bhfabhar na Gaeilge

Noel Ó Murchadha, Scoil an Oideachais, agus Colin J. Flynn, Scoil na nEolaíochtaí Teangeolaíochta, Urlabhra agus Cumarsáide i gColáiste na Tríonóide, a rinne an staidéar i gcomhar le Ipsos B&A.

20 May 2026

Culture|Research