Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF)

The Wellcome Trust ISSF scheme will help UCD's researchers to overcome systemic barriers to career and network development that will unlock future research potential within the University and beyond. The fund will support outstanding research in biomedical sciences, clinical sciences and the medical humanities that will enable UCD to strategically advance research in these areas and to leverage further funding from the Wellcome Trust and other sources. In particular, the fund will be used to support initiatives in the Personalised & Translational Medicine and One Health arenas, enablers for which include 1) facilitating the early stages of medical and veterinary clinicians in research careers, 2) support for excellent mid-

Award Date

30 September 2016

Award Value

€1100000

Principal Investigator

Professor William Gallagher

Host Institution

University College Dublin

Scheme

SFI-HRB-Wellcome Research Partnership