Meet The FutureNeuro Centres 2018 RCSI Summer Students! The FutureNeuro Centre are delighted to be participating in the Royal College of Surgeons Research Summer School for the first time. The Research Summer School Programme provides undergraduate students an opportunity to become involved in research projects during the summer months. The four students chosen by…
Seven large EU-funded projects have joined forces – epiXchange 2018 brings together Europe’s best brains to pave the way for future epilepsy research. Around 50 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases. To decrease this figure and pave the way for future ground-breaking epilepsy research, seven large…
Breakthroughs in understanding brain chemistry point to new drug targets Developing new treatments for childhood epilepsies and neuro-developmental diseases is the aim of a new partnership between RCSI (FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for chronic and rare neurological diseases based at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. announced today….
Professor David Henshall, FutureNeuro Director and co-ordinator of EpimiRNA, has joined forces with six other large EU-funded projects to organise epiXchange 2018, which brings together Europe’s best brains to pave the way for future epilepsy research. Around 50 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases. To decrease…
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.The call to action for this year is to #pressforprogress to:challenge stereotypes and biasforge positive visibility of womeninfluence others’ beliefs / actionscelebrate women’s achievementsHere in…
Novel test to diagnose Alzheimer’s when symptoms are mild – presented at RCSI Research Day 2018 A team of researchers, led by FutureNeuro Funded Investigator, Tobias Engel at RCSI in Dublin, has developed a new blood test that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages and can also predict how the disease will progress….
On Friday 23rd of February, Professor David Henshall, the Director of FutureNeuro was a guest speaker at the RCSI Neuroscience Society’s Insight into Epilepsy Event. The event, which was a collaboration between Epilepsy Ireland and RCSI Neuroscience Society was aimed at health sciences students with an interest in neurology and epilepsy. The focus of the night…
As part of the ambitious growth and expansion plans for the Centre, we are seeking an innovative Research Lecturer to join FutureNeuro and complement the existing strengths at RCSI. The College has set a strategic objective to support up-and-coming research leaders to establish world- leading research teams and contribute to the continued development of teaching…
Development of new software will improve treatment options for patients New software to deliver faster and more accurate diagnoses in genetic epilepsies is the ambition of a ground-breaking partnership between Congenica, a global provider of clinical genomics interpretation software, and FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for Chronic and Rare Neurological Diseases, supported by Science Foundation…
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