• Build and support high calibre research centres which pursue competitive translational research, which have sufficient critical mass and/or output performance.
• Establish the necessary support infrastructure and supportive research environment.
• Establish a strong International Research Profile.
• Develop new individual- & multi-investigator-led research programmes to improve healthcare by exploiting our biomedical science & clinical expertise.
• Develop a cohort of translational research scientists that will establish Irish leadership in biomedical, biopharmaceutical and bioengineering.

Our Community of Researchers

Our School comprises scientists - clinicians, molecular biologists and technologists - who are united by the goal of improving patient care and health in society.  Each approaches this shared objective from their particular professional perspective be it disease presentation, biological process or technology capability.

The School has a large and dynamic research portfolio extending from in silico bioinformatics, molecular laboratory investigations of disease to clinical research evaluating new therapeutic strategies. 

Research Quick Facts

• 100+ Principal Research Investigators
• 50+ Post-Doctoral  Research Fellows
• 50 Research Nurses, Data Managers and Laboratory Scientists
• 200+ Research Masters or Doctoral Students
• 300+ Active Research Projects
• Grants and studies under management worth approx €75 million 
• Research income of approx €7.5 million per annum
• 300+ peer reviewed publications per annum