The commercialisation of research in Ireland has the potential to create a significant number of jobs, increase exports and create revenue, according to Dr John Scanlan, Director of Commercialisation at NUI Maynooth. Dr Scanlan was speaking in advance of ‘Connect 2013’, an event which will link businesses with research teams in order to facilitate collaborative R&D partnerships. ...read more

The LifeSciences Skillnet was awarded "Best Jobseeker Initiative” at the IITD National Training Awards, Friday 23 March 2013, Kilashee House Hotel, Co Kildare. The Skillnet developed a programme to help bridge the existing skills gap in quality engineering across the medical technology sector, by retraining unemployed engineers. The network coordinated a conversion training programme for 25 unemployed engineers who were qualified in traditional disciplines of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. The programme provided trainees with the opportunity to secure skills and experience necessary to work in the medical technology sector....read more

Our tech start-up of the week is iGeotec, a geospatial technology spin-out from NUI Maynooth that has developed a geoinformatics platform based in the cloud that handles GPS, digital mapping, sensors, spatial analytics, mobile and web-location enabled services....read more

Celebrating its fifth successful year, the event is recognised as a leading international conference in translational medicine and healthcare innovation. Over 160 international delegates including clinicians, academics and businesses attended in 2012 from USA,UK,Ireland, Mainland Europe and Asia and the conference continues to grow in stature each year....read more

Hosted by Intertek GXP Hot Topics 2012 Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone ...read more

Irish Clinician to work with Cleveland Clinic to develop improved Epidural delivery...read more

British investment vehicle Armscote has bought Irish clinical trials group Venn Life Sciences in a deal worth £2.88 million. The all-share transaction will be funded through a £2.5 million placing....read more

LIMERICK-BASED genetic research company GenCell Biosystems has raised €2.7 million ($3.5m) in seed funding for the expansion of its business overseas....read more

Irish start-up Arann Healthcare has secured a new investment of €500,000 to help it progress its technology that’s aiming to tackle infections such as superbugs like MRSA and the E. coli bacterium. The start-up has also been selected to participate in the Healthcare Innovation Hub, a new initiative that the Government has just launched to help start-ups in the health-tech area....read more

IDA Ireland wins significant investment from leading life sciences software company...read more

The European Union has awarded 6 million euro of research funding under the FP7-health framework to a consortium which is working to bring a predictive test for pre-eclampsia to market. The consortium is coordinated by Prof Louise Kenny at University College Cork, Ireland and driven by two companies,Pronota NV of Belgium and Metabolomic Diagnostics Ltd.of Ireland, both at the forefront in the discovery and development of novel blood-borne biomarkers for disease prediction....read more

The ongoing debate in the lifesciences industry is the future of the venture capital model. Since 2000, the number of venture capital firms has halved and the amount of money available to VC firms to invest has also decreased significantly. For six Irish life sciences companies the 2013 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference provided an opportunity to grab the attention of potential investors, senior industry executives and key opinion leaders....read more

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is pleased to announce the expanded thematic areas and new call documentation for the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme....read more

Distinguished US researcher Professor Raymond Stallings has been appointed Director of Research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). An internationally recognised leader in the area of cancer genomics, Professor Stallings has held faculty and scientific leadership positions at a number of major research centres, hospitals and universities in Ireland and the United States, including the University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio, University College Dublin, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston. ...read more

Work is under way to discover just what it is that is driving Irish companies in the direction of trade sales rather than focusing on a successful IPO strategy, Enterprise Ireland CEO Frank Ryan told the ITLG Global Technology Leaders Summit in Cork today. ...read more

In its latest competition for ‘Advanced Grants’, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded up to €2.5m in funding each to two Irish researchers to develop their research projects around preventing the eye disease glaucoma and to explore how software shapes smart cities....read more