UCD has been awarded two E.T.S. SFI Walton Visitors Awards which will enable highly qualified academic and industrial researchers resident outside Ireland to carry out research projects of their own choice in Ireland.
Lynn Ten Eyck, of the University of California, San Diego, under the sponsorship of Jens Erik Nielsen, UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, will focus on ‘Modeling Protein Structural Variability’. Sara Linse, of Lund University, Sweden, under the sponsorship of Professor Ken Dawson, UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, will examine ‘Protein interactions with nanoparticles and in cellular signalling’.
The ETS Walton Visitors Award was established to honour and perpetuate the legacy of Ireland’s 1951 Nobel laureate in physics by bringing international researchers from academia and industry to Ireland for periods normally ranging from 3 to12 months. The aim of the programme is to strengthen Ireland’s connections to, and collaborations with, the international research community thereby enhancing Ireland’s reputation and culture as a home of first-class research. The Walton Visitor Award programme also fosters the recruitment of excellent undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.
As a result of the marked increase in the total number of applications over previous years, SFI has significantly increased the budget assigned to this programme and has funded more applications than originally planned.
