Dean's Research Initiatives Fund
Congratulations to our Research Fellow Oliviero Gobbo for his winning application!
The winning applications were spread across all schools in the Faculty - Nursing & Midwifery (1), Pharmacy (1), Dental (1) and Medicine (6). There was also a spread across all six focus areas - Ageing (2), Biomedical Sciences (2), Cancer (2), Digital Health (1), Evidence Based Clinical Practice (1) and Population Health (1).
There were 9 awards granted - the Faculty had initially advertised 6 awards, however the standard of the applications was so high that the selection panel fought very hard for these nine projects, and managed to source some additional funding to be able to award funding to all nine.
Here are the successful projects:
Category |
Applicant |
School |
Project Title |
Ageing |
Burke, Eilish |
Nursing & Midwifery |
Better Bones Better Health: Development of a risk assessment tool for the prediction of osteopenia and osteoporosis among people with intellectual disability |
Ageing |
May, Peter |
Medicine |
Retrospective cohort study of healthcare utilisation among adults with frailty in Ireland and the United States (RADIUS) |
Biomedical Sciences |
Duncan, Hal |
Dental Science |
Epigenetic approaches: Therapeutic targeting of histone deacetylases (HDAC) in dentine-pul[ regeneration treatment strategies |
Biomedical Sciences |
Nakagome, Shigeki |
Medicine |
Transcriptional profiling of inter-individual variation in immune |
Cancer |
Gobbo, Oliviero |
Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Assessment of a nanocarrier to deliver trastuzumab through the Blood Brain Barrier in a murine model of HER2+ breast cancer brain metastasis. |
Cancer |
Maher, Stephen |
Medicine |
Development of a novel biomolecular scaffold for radiosensitising microRNA delivery |
Digital Health |
Dunne, Padraic |
Medicine |
Design of a bespoke application (app) to enhance adherence and compliance to a meditation programme designed to reduce emotional burnout in emergency department staff. |
Evidence-based clinical practice |
Duggan, Sinead |
Medicine |
Type 3c diabetes in pancreatic disease |
Population Health |
Naimimohasses, Sara |
Medicine |
A pilot study to develop a non-invasive bioclinical tool for the identification of obesity related fatty liver disease |