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Trinity spin-out ProVerum secures $80 million in funding to accelerate commercialisation of innovative medical device
The largest investor funding round ever raised by a company to have spun out from an Irish university will help develop a device that reshapes enlarged prostates and relieves symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
9 Sep 2025
Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science
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Project on consent in Irish maternity care secures Research Ireland funding
A new research project, investigating consent to medical treatment in Irish maternity care, has received funding from Research Ireland under the COALESCE programme.
9 Sep 2025
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TILDA findings highlight the urgent need to rethink health and social care for older people
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) has released its ‘Wave 6’ findings which points to challenging times for Ireland’s older population.
9 Sep 2025
Health|Research|Society
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Child poverty at similar levels to financial crisis when housing costs accounted for
The latest ESRI report on child poverty was co-authored by Trinity economists Barra Roantree, Mide Griffin, and Tara Mitchell.
9 Sep 2025
Research|Society
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Immunotherapy before surgery offers a potential new treatment for rare cancer
An early phase clinical trial published in Nature Medicine show that patients with mesothelioma - a rare cancer of the lining of the lung - who received a combination of two immunotherapy drugs before surgery had successful surgeries and encouraging early outcomes
8 Sep 2025
Health|Innovation|Research
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Voluntary nature market with nature ‘credits’ could unlock private finance for Irish ecosystems
A Voluntary Nature Market – featuring nature ‘credits’– has the potential to close the multi-billion-euro nature funding gap in Ireland, according to a new report published today by Trinity College Dublin and BiOrbic Research Ireland Centre for Bioeconomy.
5 Sep 2025
Business|Research|Society|Sustainability
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Geneticist Dr Lara Cassidy secures ERC Starting Grant to bring a millennium of hidden human history to life
Dr Cassidy’s success makes her the eighth researcher in Trinity’s Department of Genetics (School of Genetics and Microbiology) to secure a prestigious ERC award.
4 Sep 2025
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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New wearable scanner a game-changer for brain research in Ireland
A new €2M scanning system in Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience will help researchers understand the brain and identify earliest signs of brain disorders.
4 Sep 2025
Research|Science|Society
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Electrical stimulation reprogrammes immune system to heal the body faster
Scientists from Trinity have discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one of the immune system's key players – can “reprogramme” them in such a way to reduce inflammation and encourage faster, more effective healing in disease and injury.
2 Sep 2025
Health|Research|Science
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Scientists harness Taylor Swift concert to boost science engagement
The seismic activity generated by Taylor Swift’s concerts in Dublin in 2024 provided a unique opportunity for scientific engagement and education, according to new research from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Trinity's School of Education.
2 Sep 2025
Culture|Research|Society