Dr Gareth Morris, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the FutureNeuro Research Centre, has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for his project ‘EpimiRTherapy’. Gareth will be hosted for 24 months by FutureNeuro Director Prof David Henshall. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Prof Michael Johnson (Imperial College London), Dr Norman Delanty(FutureNeuro and…
Today is International Epilepsy Day. It is a special event organised by the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) which promotes awareness of epilepsy in more than 120 countries each year. Every year on the second Monday of February people join together to celebrate and highlight the problems faced by people…
Professor Matthew Campbell, Principal Investigator with FutureNeuro and Assistant Professor & Lecturer in Genetics, Trinity College Dublin has been awarded €125,610 in funding as part of a €4.5 million investment by Science Foundation Ireland.His project will investigate whether restoring the function of a gene which regulates the blood-brain-barrier and has been found to be disrupted in brain material from…
FutureNeuro and Epilepsy Ireland are pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting a Public Seminar to mark International Epilepsy Day on Monday the 11th of February. The seminar is for people with epilepsy, their families & carers and will highlight the latest developments in epilepsy research in Ireland and internationally. It takes place on…
FutureNeuro researcher, Dr. Gary Brennan has received funding as part of a Government investment of €10.8 million in research funding announced today.Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Pat Breen TD, has announced the investment for 20 projects through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG)….
The International League Against Epilepsy Consortium on Complex Epilepsies publishes genetic study of epilepsy points to potential new therapiesThe largest genetic study of its kind, led by international researchers including Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri, Dr. Colin Doherty and Dr. Norman Delanty from FutureNeuro, has discovered 11 new genes associated with epilepsy.The research is published in today’s…
RCSI-based FutureNeuro centre will translate breakthroughs in diagnosis, treatment and connected health solutionsFutureNeuro, a €13.6 million SFI Research Centre has been launched at RCSI, Dublin today. The Centre aims to translate breakthroughs in understanding of brain structure and function to transform the patient journey for people with neurological diseases.Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather…
Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri, Deputy Director of FutureNeuro has received the Science Foundation Ireland ‘Best Reported Impact’ award for his work on genetic biomarkers for epilepsy predisposition and treatment at the annual SFI Science Summit today.This award recognises an SFI researcher’s commitment to maximising the impact of their research. Professor Jane Farrer, Trinity College Dublin was…
Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri, FutureNeuro Deputy Director has been awarded funding through the Health Research Board (HRB) and Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) Joint Funding Scheme. His project is among 14 studies that were funded by the €3.2m scheme.He will try to determine if certain bacteria present in the gut (the microbiome) might be providing the environmental trigger…
FutureNeuro Director Professor David Henshall and Dr Noelle Enright and have published a paper reviewing blood microRNAs as diagnostic biomarkers of epilepsy in Epilepsia Open, the Open Access Journal of the International League Against Epilepsy. To read, please click on the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epi4.12275
