Award for Professor David Brayden as part of Collaborative Partnership Grants between UCD and Northeastern University
UCD and Northeastern University have extended their longstanding undergraduate education partnership to research and doctoral education with the aim of strengthening their shared focus on global challenges in healthcare.
Following the recent signing of a bilateral memorandum of understanding in relation to their partnership, the two institutions announced a joint grant competition, funded equally by both institutions, to deepen their existing research collaborations and foster new cross-institutional relationships.
Professor David Brayden is part of a collaborative research team that will be funded to promote inter-institutional academic relationships and engender long-term, substantial engagement between these two partners.
(opens in a new window)Professor Brayden is Full Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and a Fellow of the Conway Institute at University College Dublin. He will work with (opens in a new window)Rebecca Carrier, Professor and Associate Chair of Research of Chemical Engineering, affiliated faculty of Bioengineering and Biology at Northeastern University on examining the interaction of a silica-coated nanoparticle containing insulin with a human-derived intestinal organ-on-a-chip.
In total, five projects were selected from a pool of 23 applications through a rigorous review process and are the first initiatives funded through the new institutional collaborative relationship between the two universities. Each team awarded will work together over a six-month period to pursue larger external funding programs through EU and US sponsors.
For more information on this initiative and the collaborative projects, please see the UCD Conway Institute's website.