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May 2014: | |||
Mark awarded title of Senior Research Fellow. | |||
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Group receives funding to undertake a 4 week short-term scientific mission to Academic Ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham funded by COST action BM1302 "Joining forces in corneal regeneration". The collaboration will focus on recellularization and structural analysis of decellularized corneal tissue. | |||
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Revision as of 02:06, 23 May 2014
Research News
May 2014: Mark awarded title of Senior Research Fellow.
April 2014: Group receives funding to undertake a 4 week short-term scientific mission to Academic Ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham funded by COST action BM1302 "Joining forces in corneal regeneration". The collaboration will focus on recellularization and structural analysis of decellularized corneal tissue.
January 2014: James Mulhern join the research group to work on his MSc in bioengineering project to develop nanofiber-hydrogel composites for corneal tissue engineering.
November 2013: Mark has paper accepted in Interface Focus entitled "Introduction to cell-hydrogel mechanosensing"
October 2013: Mark was appointed to the management committee of COST action BM1302 (Joining forces in Corneal Regeneration Research). During their inaugural meeting in Brussels he was elected vice-chair of the “scaffold development” working group within this action.
September 2013: Amy was awarded a travel grant worth €500 for best abstract in her section (Corneal and Ocular Science) at the European Vision and Eye Research Annual Conference, Nice, France. The talk was entitled "Influence of growth factors on keratocyte phenotype in serum free media".
January 2013: Amy was awarded the DePuy Young Researcher Award for the best young researcher presentation at the 19th Annual Bioengineering in Ireland Conference. Her talk was entitled "Development of a decellularized scaffold for corneal tissue engineering".
December 2012: Amy and Mark have a paper accepted for publication in Experimental Eye Research entitled "Development of a decellularized scaffold for corneal tissue engineering"
July 2012: Research in the area of corneal tissue regeneration commences at the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering following the award of a starting investigator grant from Science Foundation Ireland and the Marie-Curie COFUND to Dr. Mark Ahearne.
