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UCD Research News 2012

November 2012

• UCD Food Innovator Receives Lifescience Commercialisation Award

• UCD's Dr Emmeline Hill named Woman Entrepreneur of the Year

• UCD's Professor Barry Smyth wins Irish Software Association 2012 Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year Award

October 2012

• Chinese Ambassador Visits UCD Food Engineering Research Team

• Industry and academia at the interface of medical technology

• 2012 UCD Conway Festival medal winner

• Kerry Group’s new global technology and innovation centre provides unparalleled opportunities for UCD

• Agri-Food – a national research partnership

• European Research Council funding for 2 UCD researchers

September 2012

• Universities jointly honour ‘Chuck’ Feeney, the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies

• ICON forms strategic partnership with University College Dublin

• 50 new jobs as ResMed announces expansion of facility at UCD

• Fighting malaria with the help of personal computing power

• A New Artist in Residence Scheme

August 2012

• Oxygen radicals defend the intestine against gastroenteritis

• UCD awarded European Commission’s ‘HR excellence in Research’ logo.

• MMI invites applications for the Clinical & Translational Research Scholars Programme

• UCD Imagine Science Film Festival - Science Expression Competition Winners

• Conway Fellow recognised by RAMI

• MMI seeks a Chief Executive

July 2012

• Tara Oceans expedition schooner visits Dublin

• Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland

• Minister’s Old Irish countdown to conference on medieval science

• Elan-UCD endowment honours Irish business leaders and boosts Ireland’s capacity in the 'Business of Biotechnology'

• Food and health: science v myth

• TRIL Centre launches novel falls risk assessment technologies into Clinic

• “Food and Bioprocess Technology” Edited by Professor Da-Wen Sun Rank 4th Place in the World

• 1 in 3 Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator Awards go to UCD researchers

June 2012

• 2012 FEBS Journal Prize for Conway researcher

• Healthy eating guidelines needed for pre-school children as 25% classified overweight or obese

• Science in Tents! - a new Science Outreach initiative from Clarity and SBI

• Bulk metallic glass - the best of both material worlds

• Three out of five ‘Ireland’s Champions of EU Research’ awards go to UCD researchers

• New intellectual property protocol aims to capitalise on publicly-funded R&D

• First genome-wide assessment of secretion in human cells

May 2012

• New wireless sleep-monitoring device launched in Japan uses technology originally developed at UCD

• Five UCD academics enrolled as members of Royal Irish Academy

• Liver fluke reduces TB detection in cattle

• New Intellectual Property Book Launched at NovaUCD

• Minister pays tribute to Electricity Research Centre at UCD

• New protein signature of breast cancer progression identified

• In tune with the hipsters

• Irish higher education system 16th in new ranking published by Universitas 21

• Professor Da-Wen Sun Elected Fellow of IAFoST

• Keeping an eye on kidneys

• Netwatch invests in CLARITY R&D for long-term international growth

April 2012

• Barrington Medal for UCD economist who studies benefits of early childhood intervention

• Four UCD scientists awarded Government grant aimed at supporting most promising young scientific talent

• MRSA tailors virulence mechanisms to the hospital setting

• New clues about a mysterious bat-killing disease

• UCD Imagine Science dives deep into the OCÉANS to mark International Earth Day

• Kerry red deer ancestry traced to population introduced to Ireland by ancient peoples over 5,000 years ago

• Ambitious UCD Research project aims to solve the mystery behind freak ocean waves

• Toxin tricks could help deliver drugs

March 2012

• UCD Conway Professor is recognised for his contribution to paediatric surgery

• Probing mysteries of the Universe with Einstein

• Scientists Discover Link between HIV Drug and Osteoporosis

• New test can better predict successful IVF embryos, scientists say

February 2012

• Making light work of solar cells

• 5 New UCD Spin-out Companies Created in 2011

• Conway Research Fellow wins 9th St Luke’s Young Investigator

• Winners of UCD Research Images Competition 2011 are announced

• NovaUCD based companies expect to create 300 jobs over next 2 years

• Shedding new light on eye disease

• UCD Conway Institute researcher wins the first award under the SFI-HRB Wellcome Trust Biomedical Partnership

January 2012

• Scientists trace origin of 'speed gene' in modern racehorses to British mare of 300 years ago

• NIBRT announced among the winners of the 2012 Facility of the Year Awards

• Quantum physics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

• There is no 16-clue Sudoku, mathematician shows

• UK Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg visits University College Dublin

• Clever computing for better wind forecasts

• Evolution solutions, computer style

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