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HRB Ones2Watch 2019 Winner
Congratulations to Dr Aisling Smith from The Rotunda and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland who won the HRB Ones2Watch 2019 competition.
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Drugs and road user fatalities
The HRB is collaborating with the Road Safety Authority and Medical Bureau of Road Safety to examine the presence of drugs among road user fatalities.
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HRB Strategy 2025 - Stakeholder engagement and what's next?
More than 220 people completed the online strategy survey. We also conducted a series of one-to-one meetings with key stakeholders from the Department...
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Grant updates - September 2019
Information on applications in progress, calls currently open and their deadlines as well as some soon-to-open calls.
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Horizon 2020 - Ireland to lead five major health projects
In the 2019 funding round, Irish health researchers secured almost €16.9 million. This represents 2.5% of the available budget and is the largest...
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HRB welcomes appointment of two new board members
Professor Seamus Donnelly, Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Tracy Cunningham, Clinical Head of Late Projects, Oncology R&D,...
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Seeking new insights into DNA for more personalised breast cancer treatment
Dr Alex Eustace is leading new, HRB-funded research at Dublin City University to deepen our understanding of personalised medicine for breast cancer....
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Improving services for people with substance use and mental health problems
The Department of Health hosted an event today to highlight a HRB Evidence review which makes suggestions on how to reconfigure services to better...
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HRB-funded research shows early parenting programme significantly increases parental competence and wellbeing
The research, funded by the Health Research Board, found that the parents who received the programme became more confident and more satisfied in their...
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Shorter hospital stays for older people in areas with better supply of home care and residential care services
New research published today by the Economic and Social Research Institute, and funded by the HRB, analysed how care supply within hospital (hospital...
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HRB Review of clinical research infrastructure in Ireland
The HRB has invested €160 million in clinical research infrastructure on behalf of the Irish Government over the past 10 years. In order to inform...
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Grant updates - August 2019
Applications in progress, calls opening soon, and upcoming webinars...
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HRB at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Conference
Dr Sarah Craig, Head of National Health Information Systems, HRB, co-presented a morning session at the above conference about 'Lessons learnt from...
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Observers at HRB panel reviews to begin September 2019
'After an overwhelmingly positive response to the HRB proposal to consider allowing observers to attend panel meetings, the first batch of observer...
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Summer project helps to yield new tools for Public and Patient Involvement
In a HRB-funded summer project, James Mac Carthy developed new tools to help promote public and patient involvement in health research. He spoke to Dr...
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Have your say on the direction of EU research and innovation
The European Commission invites anyone with an interest in future EU research and innovation priorities to participate in a public consultation...
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Supporting national change for open research
The recent launch of the National framework for Open Research reflects a growing movement internationally to shift our thinking and embrace more...
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Grant updates - July 2019
Updates on Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) in Patient-focused Research, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD), Research Leader Awards...
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Postdoctoral fellowships for academic researchers in applied research
This scheme is part of the new HRB approach to how it provides research career pathways for those progressing along on their health research careers. ...
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Postdoctoral fellowship for health and care practitioners
This scheme is part of the new HRB approach to how it provides research career pathways for those progressing along on their health research careers....
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Majority of researchers support idea of observer opportunities at HRB funding panels
300 out of 312 respondents to a recent survey - supported the idea of having observers at HRB funding application panel meetings.
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Diving into evidence for better trials and maternity care
Professor Declan Devane has spent much of his career seeking evidence to improve maternity care and strengthening how we generate and synthesis that...
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Strategic Research Agenda for health services and systems research in Europe
Have your say: The consultation period for the TO-REACH project, that aims to prepare a joint European research programme to support health services...
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HRB to consult stakeholders on future strategy
The Health Research Board (HRB) would like stakeholders to provide feedback on existing strategy progress and give input on future strategy direction....
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Grant updates - May 2019
Updates on Emerging Investigator Awards for Health (EIA) 2019. The Cancer Nursing Research Award 2019 opened recently and more...
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