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UCD Research News 2007

December 2007

• UCD professor scoops commercialisation award

• UCD researchers funded in a €5.2 million Marine Functional Food Programme

• Leading International Researchers join UCD under the SFI Stokes Programme

• Tracking sand grains across super-continents narrows search for oil and gas

November 2007

• UCD professor awarded RIA gold medal

• UCD Environmental Change Management Start-Up wins NovaUCD 2007 Entrepreneur Award

• UCD PhD student wins ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at North American Regional Science Congress

• UCD awarded over €25 million for SFI strategic research clusters

• ChangingWorlds a UCD Computer Science spin-out Ranked in Top 10 of 2007 Deloitte Fast 50

• Spatial paradigms across the arts and social sciences was the central theme of the Defining Space Conference

• New Fellowships to train academic medical leaders

October 2007

• Students explore encryption behind iPods at National Maths week.

• Climate change and biodiversity are linked to ancient mass extinction

• UCD awarded funding for four major Graduate Research Education Programmes

• Invest NI supports UCD spin-out BiancaMed with £250,000

• UCD hosts 2nd Annual Images of Research awards ceremony & Exhibition

• AIM listed Alltracel Pharmaceuticals locates new division at NovaUCD Seminar Series

• Irish Entrepreneurs to Reveal Secrets of Success at NovaUCD “Entrepreneurs Live!” Seminar Series

September 2007

• UCD researchers are changing the face of computers - by literally making them disappear

• HRB-funded research leads to smarter prescription of drugs for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis

• UCD Researchers create innovative hand-held, crispy cheese snack that’s microwaveable, virtually fat free and high in fibre

• CSCB researchers highlighted in European journal celebratory issue

• Ireland has much to do to become leader in scientific research, says Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser

• UCD professor appointed to National Economic and Social Council

August 2007

• Asian currencies should be pegged to each other and US dollar, says Nobel economist

• UCD psychologist is editor-in-chief of new sport psychology journal

• Lost and Found – an interactive dance extravaganza from the Adaptive Information Cluster

• UCD, Mater, St Vincent’s sign agreement to create Dublin Academic Health Care

• UCD awarded €30 million in PRTLI Cycle 4 for transformative initiatives in science and humanities research

• SFI STARs bringing UCD research back to the classroom

• UCD spin-out company wins international award for personalised content discovery solution for mobile portals

July 2007

• Professor of Innovation and Technology Management joins the NITM

• Pioneering scientist joins UCD Conway Institute

• UCD awarded €1.5m to help reduce poverty in developing nations

• Nobel laureate in ‘green chemistry’ awarded UCD Ulysses Medal

• €30m AIB Seed Capital Fund for NovaUCD

• Minister Harney Launches All-Ireland Traveller Health Study

• UCD Conway & Siemens develop software to accelerate drug discovery

• All aboard for ScienceTrack!

• Leading UCD Neuropharmacologist wins NovaUCD 2007 Innovation

June 2007

• Students get a taste of Science at UCD

• Strong Growth in UCD Intellectual Property Outputs for 2006

• UCD Professor appointed Chair of unique all-Ireland programme

• Irish patients volunteer in the fight for new cures

May 2007

• Innovation Workshop brings international scientists to CSCB

• Highest honour for three UCD academics

• 83% of young people in detention schools have at least one psychiatric disorder, according to new research

• Centre for Behaviour and Health established in UCD

• UCD researchers deliver talks at inaugural Chemical Biology Symposium

• 12 new high-tech ventures participate in Campus Company Development Programme

• Humanities and social sciences funding awards secured by UCD researchers

• Immigrants and ethnic minorities remain unrepresented by Irish parliamentary politics, says new report

April 2007

• Novel anti-inflammatory agents - UCD researchers design a lipoxin that lasts

• QUB, UCD and TCD sign historic all-Ireland strategic partnership

• Minister Hanafin opens UCD St Vincent’s Genome Resource Unit

• Researchers develop economic system for expanding stem cells to form cartilage tissue

• No correlation with avian brain enlargement and the evolution of powered flight

• Professor Stefan Oscarson appointed UCD Professor of Chemical Biology

• Ireland’s Broadband Future – debate chaired by Prof Paddy Nixon

• UCD research at Young Chemists’ Workshop

• UCD professor appointed editor-in-chief of new international journal

• Enterprise Ireland funding will strengthen UCD Technology Transfer

• Minister Dempsey announces appointment of CEO at the National Digital Research Centre

March 2007

• UCD is leader in major bioinformatics consortium

• UCD palaeontologists to search Sahara for dinosaurs

• NovaUCD “Entrepreneurs Live!” Seminar Series

• New system reduces energy costs of commercial buildings

• UCD Announces Intellectual Property Policy

• Diary Feature - World Expert on Plesiosaurs to Speak at UCD

• Scientific research unraveled at UCD AccesScience 2007

• First comprehensive report on Irish sport horse industry published

February 2007

• Research shows greater diversity in mollusc species

• Science Foundation Ireland announces funding for undergraduate research programmes

• UCD Researchers participate in leading global Autism Genome Project

• Translational medicine at UCD receives €7.5m boost from Servier

• UREKA: Research published by UCD undergraduate students

• NovaUCD accounting solutions company, Visor secures €1 million equity funding

• Irish universities join Intel and IDA on $30 million ageing research project

• Cybercrime has significant impact on Irish organisations, survey shows

January 2007

• Graduate Entry Programmes in Medicine - Announcement by the Minister for Education and Science

• Urban sprawl leads to fragmentation in the Greater Dublin housing market, study shows

• Proverbs provide unique insight into Irish psyche

• Engineered biosynthesis - a path to new and improved antibiotics

• Success for UCD researchers at CSCB symposium

• Applications Called for NovaUCD 2007 Campus Company Development Programme

• UCD researchers receive two of seven Charles Parsons Research Energy Awards

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