€6.9 MILLION FUNDING FOR SCIENCE PROJECTS WILL CREATE JOBS
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| John Lyons TD speaking at a DCU Access event last year |
It is welcome news today that €6.9 million in research awards for 62 projects – including 6
innovative projects based in Dublin City University.
The funding announced, which was announced by Minister for Research and
Innovation Seán Sherlock TD – through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and
Enterprise Ireland – will support jobs and cutting edge research in areas that
will have a knock-on for the wider economy.
Over €700,000 of this funding had been awarded to 6 projects in
Dublin City University which is an immediate jobs boost for Dublin North West
and the north city area.
I firmly believe the approach taken by Minister
Sherlock, SFI and Enterprise Ireland – in supporting projects with strong
commercial potential – will lead to further sustainable jobs for the wider area
when these projects are completed.
Today’s announcement follows the launch of the DCU Innovation
Campus in January of this year which will support 200 new Cleantech jobs – expected
to grow to 500 jobs- and allow for the development of a major high tech hub in
Glasnevin.
I commend Minister Sherlock, SFI and Enterprise Ireland on their
strategy and on supporting projects with strong commercial potential as part of
this programme.
Dublin City University has been at the forefront of promoting
enterprise and innovation for many years and I congratulate DCU President Prof
Brian MacCraith and all the researchers in DCU for their work in securing this
funding.
More Information:
Six DCU Projects which were awarded funding as part of
the €6.9 million Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) programme
today:
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Research Scientist
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Award
Title
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Research
Body
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Funding Awarded
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Dr Nick
Bennett
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Nanostructured
next-generation silicon based thermoelectric power reclamation (nextstep)
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Dublin
City University
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122,599.
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Dr
Andreas Heise
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Development
of low-cost bioanalytical platform for therapeutic glycoproteins for the
biopharmaceutical industry
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Dublin
City University
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121,322.
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Prof
Tia Keyes
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Peptide
directed metal complex probes for intra-cell sensing
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Dublin
City University
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128,779.
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Prof.
Robert Forster
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GeneSys:
A high sensitivity and selectivity DNA detection platform
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Dublin
City University
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130,197.
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Dr
Aoife Morrin
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Electrochemically-responsive
monolithic chromatography
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Dublin
City University
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82,139.
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Prof
Josef Van Genabith
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Iterative
Retraining of Machine Translation with Post-edits to Increase Post-Editing
Productivity in Localisation Workflows
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Dublin
City University
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127,483.
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