Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan T.D, has announced five University of Galway research projects. The projects will be funded under the Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme and are part of a €26 million investment for 40 research projects nationwide.
These projects will be in the fields of medicine, sustainability and engineering. Two projects will be in the College of Science and Engineering and three in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
The projects include developing novel therapies for untreatable childhood neurological disorders, studying breast cancer, deciphering how microRNAs sequences function and developing an approach to deliver them directly to tumor tissue for targeted treatment of patients with advanced disease, creating novel ways to predict and control nitrous oxide emissions from soil to support low emissions, studying gene therapy and tissue engineering to reduce scarring and promote nerve regeneration after spinal cord injury and developing machine learning and explicit computations of zeta functions in algebra.
Minister O’Donovan said, “I am pleased to announce the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future projects, which support high-risk, high-reward research endeavours. The selected projects, spanning 12 research institutions, bring fresh and innovative ideas that will help boost business and benefit society. I would also like to commend Research Ireland and the Children’s Health Foundation for their great partnership and their focus on advancing children’s health through this funding program.”
