Waterford, Ireland / WLR
May 6, 2021 12:52 PM
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences have been tagging basking sharks in West Cork in a bid to learn more about ‘Ireland’s gentle giants’ some of which grow to 12 metres in length, which makes them the second-largest shark species in the world.
Assistant Professor Nick Payne and PhD candidate Haley Dolton have just returned from a week on the waves in which they managed to apply tags to four sharks.
These electronic tags accumulate data about the sharks’ behaviour and physiology as they cruise around the coast feeding on plankton.
NeuroInsight, a new research training programme led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been awarded a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND worth €4.7 million.
Waterford, Ireland / WLR
May 4, 2021 12:22 PM
A Waterford woman has become possibly the first Irish woman ever to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Kate Fitzgerald, who is originally from the Folly in the city, is an internationally renowned immunologist.
The former St Angela’s student has won many awards for her pioneering research in the field of medicine, including the Science Foundation Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day science medal in 2015.
Her lab at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) near Boston is focused on understanding how the immune system discriminates between ‘friend and foe’.
She says her research has implications for auto-immune diseases:
‘The big challenge for pharma in Ireland is ensuring a skilled graduate pipeline’
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Prof Gavin Walker. Image: Oisin McHugh/True Media
SSPC’s Prof Gavin Walker discusses opportunities in Ireland’s pharma sector, the importance of a diverse pipeline of talent, and how he got to the role he has today.
Prof Gavin Walker was appointed in 2017 as one of the co-directors for SSPC, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for pharmaceuticals. He also leads the process engineering research cluster in the Bernal Institute at the University of Limerick, and is a visiting research professor of chemical engineering at Queen’s University Belfast.