6 DCU Science Projects to Receive New Funding as Part of Government Programme

€6.9 MILLION FUNDING FOR SCIENCE PROJECTS WILL CREATE JOBS 

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.

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Six DCU Projects which were awarded funding as part of the €6.9 million Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) programme today:

Research Scientist	Award Title	Research Body	Funding Awarded
Dr Nick Bennett	Nanostructured next-generation silicon based thermoelectric power reclamation (nextstep)	Dublin City University	122,599.
Dr Andreas Heise	Development of low-cost bioanalytical platform for therapeutic glycoproteins for the biopharmaceutical industry	Dublin City University	121,322.
Prof Tia Keyes	Peptide directed metal complex probes for intra-cell sensing	Dublin City University	128,779.
Prof. Robert Forster	GeneSys: A high sensitivity and selectivity DNA detection platform	Dublin City University	130,197.
Dr Aoife Morrin	Electrochemically-responsive monolithic chromatography	Dublin City University	82,139.
Prof Josef Van Genabith	Iterative Retraining of Machine Translation with Post-edits to Increase Post-Editing Productivity in Localisation Workflows	Dublin City University	127,483.