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20/04/2012
Funding Boost For Scientific Research
State funding of €12.3m has been awarded to 22 scientific researchers based in higher education institutions to carry on with their work in Ireland.
The money, provided under the Starting Investigator Research Grant programme and administered through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), aims to encourage early-career scientific researchers to undergo pioneering work in the country.
It was awarded to researchers working in nine higher level educational institutions including: Cork Institute of Technology (1 award); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1 award); NUI Galway (3 awards); Trinity College Dublin (5 awards); Tyndall National Institute, Cork (5 awards); NUI Maynooth (1 award); National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (1 award); University College Dublin (4 awards), University College Cork (1 award).
Areas awarded the grant include geothermal energy, marine ecology, thermoelectrics, tissue engineering, cancer, cystic fibrosis, immunology, neuroscience and schizophrenia.
Minister for Research and Innovation Séan Sherlock said the programme “provides an opportunity for researchers to propel themselves to the next level and realise their potential in their respective fields”.
Mr Sherlock said the awards marks the first co-funding arrangement with the international Marie Curie COFUND scheme and shows the “increasingly collaborative and international nature” of research in Ireland today.
(H/GK)
The money, provided under the Starting Investigator Research Grant programme and administered through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), aims to encourage early-career scientific researchers to undergo pioneering work in the country.
It was awarded to researchers working in nine higher level educational institutions including: Cork Institute of Technology (1 award); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1 award); NUI Galway (3 awards); Trinity College Dublin (5 awards); Tyndall National Institute, Cork (5 awards); NUI Maynooth (1 award); National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (1 award); University College Dublin (4 awards), University College Cork (1 award).
Areas awarded the grant include geothermal energy, marine ecology, thermoelectrics, tissue engineering, cancer, cystic fibrosis, immunology, neuroscience and schizophrenia.
Minister for Research and Innovation Séan Sherlock said the programme “provides an opportunity for researchers to propel themselves to the next level and realise their potential in their respective fields”.
Mr Sherlock said the awards marks the first co-funding arrangement with the international Marie Curie COFUND scheme and shows the “increasingly collaborative and international nature” of research in Ireland today.
(H/GK)
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