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Medical device and digital health startups pitch for their places on Medtech Innovator’s Showcase and Accelerator programme
The programme supports the development of the most promising innovations in the field. Partners, Trinity College Dublin and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, play host to the event.
24 Apr 2023
Awards and Funding|Business|Health|Innovation
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360-million-year-old Irish fossil provides oldest evidence of plant self-defence in wood
An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland.
21 Apr 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Political bravery required to reconcile cybersecurity and rights to privacy
An overhaul of our approach to making technology law is required to achieve cybersecurity while safeguarding privacy and data protection, according to Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda, School of Law, in a new publication launched this week.
20 Apr 2023
Research|Society
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Machines – not humans – to drive future wireless demands, expert predicts
Professor Holger Claussen shares his assessment of the future of wireless networks as he becomes Joint Professor of Wireless Communications at UCC, Trinity, and Tyndall in an Irish first.
20 Apr 2023
Research|Science
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Scientists develop novel gene therapy for glaucoma
The scientists announce a significant development towards a new therapeutic treatment of glaucoma, with approximately 80 million people globally affected by the condition.
19 Apr 2023
Health|Research|Science
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The heavy toll of the Troubles on brain health in Northern Ireland
Professor Brian Lawlor writes on the toll of the Troubles, reflected by the high numbers of people that developed anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder and one of the highest uses of antidepressants in Europe.
19 Apr 2023
Health|Research|Society
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Get it over and done with! The secret to managing tasks we don’t like
New research from Trinity Business School and colleagues in Germany suggests that working on the tasks you really dislike and getting them over and done with is the best way to manage your workload.
17 Apr 2023
Business|Research|Society
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New Dean elected at Trinity Business School
Laurent Muzellec steps into the role after many years at the Business School. He has made a significant contribution to the development of the school, setting up the Centre for Digital Business and Analytics, and establishing the Masters in Digital Marketing Strategy.
13 Apr 2023
Business|Research
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400 years after publication, Ireland’s only copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio goes on display
Trinity’s copy of the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays is the centrepiece of a new exhibition in the Library of Trinity College Dublin entitled “Shakespeare the Irishman” marking 400 years since the Bard’s complete works were first published.
13 Apr 2023
Culture|Research
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A cellular identity discovery with the potential to impact cancer treatments
A team of scientists led by those in Trinity has discovered new mechanisms involved in establishing cellular identity, a process that ensures the billions of different cells in our bodies do the correct job.
7 Apr 2023
Health|Research|Science