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Maynooth academics awarded new frontier research awards
Dr Karen English, Department of Biology and Dr Deborah Hayden, Department of Early Irish, have been awarded prestigious Starter Laureate awards by the IRC.
Date: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Prizes and Scholarships Awards Ceremony: 21 March 2018
Congratulations to all of the Biology prize winners at the Maynooth University Prizes and Scholarships Awards Ceremony.
Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
New research may provide the key to improved treatments for aggressive form of cancer
International researchers including Maynooth University scientists aim to create better treatments for sufferers of acute myeloid leukaemia
Date: Monday, 12 February 2018
Research sheds light on how childhood obesity inhibits cancer-fighting cells
Paper demonstrates how obesity in children compromises the immune system by depleting and damaging crucial ‘Natural-Killer’ cells
Date: Friday, 22 December 2017
Researchers unlock the secrets of Earth’s largest living organism
An international team of scientists, including five researchers from Maynooth University, have sequenced and analysed the genome of the largest living organism on planet Earth, revealing the secrets of a deadly fungal organism larger than the Phoenix Park.
Date: Friday, 24 November 2017
International team including Maynooth researchers sequence the Humongous Fungus
An international group of scientists including researchers from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and five researchers from the Department of Biology at Maynooth University (Dr. David Fitzpatrick & Professor Sean Doyle along with PhD students Nicola Moloney, Eoin O’Connor and Rose Waldron) have recently sequenced and analysed the complete genomes of four Armillaria species, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution (1).
Date: Monday, 20 November 2017
SFI research investment of €2.5mn in Maynooth University
D’fhógair an tAire le freagracht as Oiliúint, Scileanna, Nuálaíocht agus Taighde agus Forbairt, John Halligan TD, inniu go bhfuil infheistíocht ar fiú €2.5m í déanta ag Fondúireacht Eolaíochta Éireann (FEÉ) i gcúrsaí taighde in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad trí Chlár Taighdeoirí FEÉ.
Date: Thursday, 21 September 2017
Sixth Biology Research Day - 6th of June 2017
The 6th Biology Research Day was held on the 6th of June 2017 and provided an opportunity for PhD and MSc students, postdocs and academic staff to present and discuss their research, and to get an overview of the current research activities in the department.
Date: Monday, 10 July 2017
Maynooth student awarded the prestigious Best Oral Presentation Prize at the Irish Fungal Society Meeting
Mr Jamie McGowan BSc, a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Biology, Maynooth University was awarded the prestigious Best Oral Presentation Prize at the Irish Fungal Society Meeting which was held in Limerick Institute of Technology from 15-16 June 2017.
Date: Monday, 26 June 2017
Breakthrough research points to new treatments for Multiple Sclerosis
Scientists have discovered that specific cells from the immune system are key players in brain repair – a fundamental breakthrough that could revolutionise the treatment of debilitating neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2017