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SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ANNUAL REPORT 2015
2015
The Year in Review
Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board and the
Wellcome Trust renew Biomedical Research Partnership.
Science Foundation Ireland participated in the BT Young Scientist
Exhibition and Competition.
Science Foundation Ireland announced €1.6 million in funding to
support 39 science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM),
educational and public engagement projects in Ireland.
Science Foundation Ireland published its 2016 Annual Plan.
Science Foundation Ireland signed
agreements with funding agencies from
Brazil, to cement future collaborations
between researchers in Brazil and Ireland at a
special ceremony held in Dublin Castle.
Clare McInerney from Lero - the Irish
Software Research Centre, was named by
Google as one of the global winners of the
2015 RISE Awards.
Prof Mark Ferguson,
Director General of
Science Foundation
Ireland and Chief
Scientific Adviser
to the Government
of Ireland, Dr
Graham Love, Chief
Executive of the
Health Research
Board and Dr Jeremy
Farrar, Director of the
Wellcome Trust.
Sergio Luiz Gargioni, President
Confab, Damien English TD,
Minister of State for Research
& Innovation; Prof Mark
Ferguson, Director General,
Science Foundation Ireland
and Chief Scientific Adviser to
the Government of Ireland and
Alan Harvey, Vice President for
Research & Innovation, Dublin
City University.
At an event organised by Science Foundation Ireland in Washington,
An Taoiseach Mr Enda Kenny, T.D. presented Prof Katherine
Fitzgerald, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School with the Science Foundation Ireland St. Patrick’s Day
Science Medal, and presented a Certificate of Irish Heritage to Dr
France A. Cordóva, Director of the National Science Foundation.
A new research alliance between Janssen Biotech Inc., (Janssen),
UCC and APC was announced. The partnership will explore the role
of viruses in shaping the human microbiome and their potential
use as novel treatments and/or biomarkers of inflammatory bowel
disease.
Prof Katherine Fitzgerald, Professor of Medicine at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School receives
prestigious medal from An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D.
A new partnership was announced that brings together Stryker R&D
scientists and engineers from its global headquarters in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA) with Stryker R&D design and
development experts in Cork to collaborate with Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC) researchers at Tyndall
National Institute.