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We uncover the hidden workings of the human body to understand what keeps us healthy—and what goes wrong when disease strikes. Tweets by Elaine Quinn
University College Dublin
Joined September 2013
Proud to highlight this 💡 How cells adapt to low oxygen is key to understanding IBD & cancer Prof Taylor’s @ucddublin @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway is revealing how hypoxia reshapes metabolism & could inform therapy ➡️ https://t.co/NNx5MPxyDx
#CancerResearch #IBDResearch #science
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INSPIRE programme is a very welcome investment in research infrastructure - €750m in research funding for higher education sector via @RTENews
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The Government has launched a €750 million investment package for research infrastructure across Ireland's higher education sector.
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#AIforGood Making a difference to the health of mothers and babies 👶 Vanessa Carvalho, PhD researcher @fniainle
Launching #UCD_Ai stories! Meet Vanessa Carvalho, researcher with UCD's ConwaySPHERE group & #UCDAIHealthCareHub making a real difference to patients' lives ❤️'Every line of data is a person' Learn more about UCD's #data #revolution in #health #UCD_Ai
https://t.co/Bc93FbM4Cb
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Today is #InternationalMensDay, and we conclude our SBBS series with two tributes honouring academic and family mentorship: 💙 Matteo Prencipe, honoured by Dr Maria Prencipe 💙 Prof. Breandán Kennedy, celebrated by Camilla Maria Fontana Full stories: https://t.co/MmsYwH7Bq1
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Day 2 of our #InternationalMensDay series celebrates mentors that build confidence and support early-career scientists in our school research community: 💙 Gary Brennan 💙 Breandán Kennedy 💙 David O’Connell Read their mentee's stories➡️: https://t.co/P2W57fYTjX
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Gratz to @jf_grady, Dr John O'Grady, on passing his @ucddublin, @ucdagfood PhD viva today with no examiner corrections—a rare feat! 😀 Thx: @colmr @PatLonerganUCD #AlexBagnato @LaStatale (U of Milan) Support: @Researchirel @GenomicsCRT @UCD_Conway @agriculture_ie @UCD_OneHealth
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🧬Congratulations to Prof Wenxin Wang @CharlesUCD @UCDMedicine, Prof Geraldine Butler @yeastpi @UCD_SBBS, Dr Martina Wallace @martina5wallace @ucdagfood on @Researchirel funding awards 🔬
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🧠#ScienceWeek Catch Anupa Sara Paulose's talk 'Not All Brains Fight the Same: Why Women and Men Experience Alzheimer’s Disease Differently' at 10.30 & 11.30, 12 Nov @ExploriumI! @anupa_sp is a Neuroscience PhD Candidate @UCD_SBBS. #UCDxExplorium ➡️ https://t.co/QboHAjS0xx
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Registration is open for the 2025 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Showcase and Awards event on 26 Nov where the latest research-backed start-ups will be pitching their businesses to a panel of leading investors. All welcome to register to attend. https://t.co/BSFvmgiS8Z
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Delighted to be exhibiting ‘The Blossoming’ at the 5th Annual #CAYAS Conference in @CrokePark - nice to see the visual narrative told again by the talented @vincent_devine @AlCRIproject @ChildhoodCanIre @CanTeen_Ireland @UCD_Conway
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Delighted to share our review on the relevance of epigenetics for the diagnosis of bovine TB with @david_machugh and @Eamonn_Broc @ucdagfood @ucdvetmed @UCD_CHAS @UCD_Conway Funding from @Researchirel
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'Encore on Tour' by @zoeryan23 🙏- a walk through of #cutfromthesamecloth exhibition, a merging of art, science and community captured at the launch event @dunamaise
https://t.co/QRSrLhXPRO
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Encore hits the road for a special in Portlaoise — exploring tapestry, tissue samples and the threads that tie art and science together.
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Tune in: Encore Zoe Ryan tonight 7pm Midlands 103 to hear about recent exhibition opening in @dunamaise #CutFromtheSameCloth - fabric stories of 164 women from minority communities in Ireland, 21 research stories of patterns seen in cells.
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Discover the world of arts, culture & entertainment in the Midlands every Thursday with Zoe Ryan.
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💙💛 Our warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Helen Roche on her appointment to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) by The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD. As a Full Professor of Nutrigenomics, Helen's expertise bridges disciplines at
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Congratulations to Profs Walter Kolch & Donal Brennan @donalb5 & all the @PrecisionOncIre co-PIs incl Prof @HelenMRoche 🤝🇮🇪🧬
Phase 2 of Ireland’s largest ever cancer research programme @PrecisionOncIre was launched today! Since 2019, Precision Oncology Ireland (POI) has accelerated personalised cancer therapy & diagnostics, POI-2 represents double the scale & ambition. ➡️ https://t.co/wwF7vAM744
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Congratulations on the publication of new research @wo_jules
Our new review article focusing on pulmonary neuroendocrine #PNEC dysfunction 🫁 in #NEHI and #DIPNECH is OUT NOW @AnesthChestClin
https://t.co/X8hyo5DEv0
@UCD_CHAS @UCD_Conway
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🥳Dr Tess McCann wins the 2025 UCD Conway Festival Gold Medal for research on the discovery of a gene mutation that causes major vision problems. 👁️🐟🧬 Read more: https://t.co/AWsIDnpGz1
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🗣️ UCD Professor William Gallagher: “You can predict whether that will be an aggressive tumour or not. If you don’t have an aggressive tumour, you could potentially avoid chemotherapy. That was a big thing that happened. And interestingly, Ireland was one of the leading countries
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Sujithra Srinivas’s fabric shows lab-grown neurons used to study epilepsy—one of the most common neurological disorders. Her work helps uncover what happens in the brain during seizures, paving the way for future treatments. Link in bio. #CutFromTheSameCloth #EpilepsyResearch
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Precision medicine meets biomaterials - @harvardmed ’s Prof. @NatalieArtzi joins us to share cutting-edge insights. #ConwayFest25 #Biotech
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