More than 200 scientists in Ireland are to receive a total
of almost €50 million in funding for new research projects over the next five
years.
The research focuses on a range of areas, including Information
and Communications Technology (ICT), health sciences and energy. The money is coming
from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, through Science Foundation Ireland's Investigators Programme.
The programme aims to
support scientific research that has the potential to bring economic and social
benefits to the country.
A total of 36 projects, involving over 200 Irish-based
researchers were selected and funding for each project will range from €400,000
to €3.1 million. The chosen projects were selected by competitive peer
review by 400 international scientists, on the basis of excellent research with
potential impact.
The successfully
funded projects include research in areas such
as sustainable food production, enhancing communications networks to enable
high quality internet video,
developing innovative wave energy devices, biopharmaceutical production,
cancer detection and investigating the control of epilepsy development.
In total €47m will be
made available to the scientists between now and 2019.
SFI DirectorGeneral Professor Mark Ferguson said the programme would have an indirect
impact on many other research initiatives by allowing for the development of
further research links with industry.
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