Categorised as: Life Sciences & News
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Scientists build US$1m ‘bionic man’ using artificial limbs and organs News
29.01.2013 A ‘bionic man’ built using US$1m worth of artificial limbs and organs from around the globe has raised ethical questions about the research and use of advanced prosthetics. -
Charging ahead with med tech News
28.01.2013 Dr Stephen Daniels has been recently recognised by Enterprise Ireland for his work in manufacturing, engineering and energy technology commercialisation. Claire O'Connell met...Tags: Medical Devices, Innovation, Chemistry, SFI, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, MedTech, DCU, Semiconductor -
€1m biotech investment in Algae Health paves way for 23 Galway jobs News
28.01.2013 Twenty-three new jobs are to be created in Galway by green biotech company Algae Health, which has landed a €1m investment in a round led by AIB Seed Fund and the Western... -
UL secures €3m from SFI for research, including mathematical modelling News
25.01.2013 Researchers at University of Limerick (UL) have secured €3m from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as part of the €60m investment programme announced today by the science-funding...Categories: Software, Science, Research, Life Sciences, Investments, Graduate, Government, Energy, Economy -
Irish biotech firm BioAtlantis to lead €1.7m EU research project on antibiotics News
24.01.2013 Irish biotechnology company BioAtlantis is to lead a €1.7m research project that will aim to validate natural alternatives to the use of in-feed growth promoting antibiotics in... -
ERC awards grants to two Irish scientists for smart city and glaucoma research News
23.01.2013 In its latest competition for ‘Advanced Grants’, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded up to €2.5m in funding each to two Irish researchers to develop their research... -
Belfast firm Exploristics draws some £200,000 in US contracts News
23.01.2013 A Belfast-based company specialising in statistical and data analytics, Exploristics, has won about £200,000 worth of contracts with US businesses. -
Capturing clinical innovation to improve patient care News
21.01.2013 Clinicians are often well placed to come up with ideas for new or improved medical technologies, but how do they go from concept to clinic? The Clinical Innovation Award, hosted... -
IDA Ireland tells Class of 2013 students their best hopes lie in ICT industry News
17.01.2013 IDA Ireland has told Leaving Cert students about to file their CAO applications that the best job opportunities for the future will lie in ICT, digital media and language-based...Tags: Digital Media, CAO, Leaving Certificate, IDA Ireland, Software, ICT, Engineering, Start-ups, Third Level, Science -
15 companies to benefit from latest €750k Competitive Start Fund News
17.01.2013 Enterprise Ireland has launched the latest phase of its Competitive Start Fund with €750,000 available to up to 15 start-ups. So far, 60 companies have been funded under the... -
President Higgins recognises scientists for PIYRA research News
15.01.2013 Two scientists based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) who have received the Science Foundation Ireland, President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) have been commended... -
2.8m patients remotely monitored today - Berg Insight News
15.01.2013 About 2.8m patients worldwide used a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity at the end of 2012, a report from Berg Insight reveals. The analyst... -
Mr and Mrs Bopp have an appointment at the White House News
14.01.2013 An Ireland-based husband-and-wife team behind a charity that brought emergency communications systems to earthquake-stricken Haiti in 2010 and to New York following Hurricane...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Life Sciences, Internet, Funding, Digital Media, Computers, Communications -
Studying a solar eclipse and experimenting with battery power: BT Young Scientist projects (video) News
14.01.2013 We talked to some of the young exhibitors about their projects at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition before the event wrapped up on Saturday at the RDS in Dublin. -
Formula for Ireland's med-tech investment = 4Ts + 3Es News
14.01.2013 Foreign direct investment (FDI) has historically played an important role in the rise of Ireland’s med-tech sector, and it continues to do so today. Claire O’Connell talks to... -
From human battery power to harvesting solar energy: BT Young Scientist projects (video) News
11.01.2013 With 550 projects on show at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin, a selection of students explained all about their research in the following video. -
Cork students Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow win 2013 BT Young Scientist contest (video) News
11.01.2013 Three students from Kinsale Community School - Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow – have been just announced as the winners of this year’s BT Young Scientist and... -
BT Ireland CEO Colm O’Neill talks science (interview) News
11.01.2013 Against the background noise of the throngs of students and visitors waiting to enter the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition today at the RDS in Dublin, BT Ireland’s... -
The life scientist - an interview with Peter Milner News
10.01.2013 Roscrea, Co Tipperary, native Peter Milner is a world-renowned industrial scientist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur whose first company was bought for US$1.5bn and whose...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Investments, Intellectual Property, Education, Economy -
Snapshot of students' projects from the BT Young Scientist exhibition (video) News
10.01.2013 The atmosphere at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition was electric yesterday at the RDS in Dublin, as visitors and judges took in about 550 projects presented by...