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17 Jul 2024
UCC-led projects awarded €2.4m from Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine
Three UCC-led projects have received a combined €2.4m from the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) ‘Thematic Research Call’ to deliver solutions to address significant challenges in the agri-food sector.
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11 Jul 2024
€2.9m funding awarded to UCC early career researchers in SFI-IRC Pathway Programme awards
Investigating the link between the microbiome and the development of stress-social circuits, the development of novel self-powered eco-friendly supercapacitors, and new approaches to the development of potential anti-viral drugs are amongst the University College Cork projects to receive a combined €2.9 million funding under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme awards announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD.
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10 Jul 2024
UCC researcher receives prestigious recognition in Molecular Biology
Professor Pavel (Pasha) Baranov, a world leading researcher in Biomolecular Informatics in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UCC, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) for his outstanding research contributions to genetic decoding and mRNA (messenger RNA) translation.
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03 Jul 2024
Scientists discover new plants that could lead to ‘climate-proof’ chocolate
Scientists have found three new species that are close relatives to the plant from which chocolate is produced – a discovery that could pave the way for climate-proof chocolate.
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