Brain Research Funding Received

A professor of brain research at Dublin's Trinity College is to receive €1.2m in funding over six years to study the systems that support memory in the brain.

Professor Shane O'Mara is the first Irish-based recipient of a Senior Investigator Award.  The award is a joint scientific funding initiative between Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board and the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Partnership.

The scheme aims to support exceptional, world class researchers investigating important questions in health and disease.

Professor O'Mara will work in partnership with Professor John Aggleton from Cardiff University to figure out how interactions between differing brain areas, support normal memory and what happens to memory, when brains are damaged.

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