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Exploding cells in a twisted shape
Targeting RNA can produce less toxic new drugs

The development of new drugs based on targeting non-coding RNA can produce less toxic, and more specific therapies for cancers and diseases.

Fruit fly examination
Unlocking new treatments for MND inside fruit fly DNA 

Fruit flies are tiny creatures, but the questions we are asking – how do neurons fail, how to fix them – are massively important for MND research.

Measuring tape and pills
Tackling obesity as a brain disease

Deciphering the links between the brain, gut and obesity is challenging how obesity has been thought of and treated in our society. 
Circles on circular plates
Taking the fight to deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that by 2050, there could be 50 million deaths annually due to antibiotic resistance. Professor Siobhán McClean is fighting to tackle some of these drug-resistant pathogens threatening so many lives.

Bone cancer
New strategies to treat a deadly childhood cancer

Osteosarcoma, a rare, deadly paediatric bone cancer has defied new approaches to its treatment ever since chemotherapy was introduced in the 1970s. Dr Fiona Freeman aims to change that.
Woman in large facility
Safer, faster, better ways to image and diagnose disease 

Working in parallel on two new game changing technologies that will enable quicker, safer, less painful and more precise micro-biopsies and visualise changes in individual cells caused by disease. 

Weighing scales
Inflammation is a better indicator of health than BMI in obesity

The level of low-grade, chronic inflammation in the body is a better indicator of metabolic health than simply measuring body mass index, or BMI.

AI generated image human skeleton
Inflammatory bowel disease

Preventing the GI tract springing a leak by developing new drug treatments that reinforce the epithelial layer.

UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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