Undergraduate
1994 Dr. Shirodaria Memorial Prize -highest final year exam results in Virology
1994 Randox Immunology Prize (finalist) -highest final year exam results
Postgraduate
2020 The research supervisor award and RIA USA research innovation award 2020
2020 Catalyst Award
2020 Ulster University Excellence Award
2020 Ulster University Randox Industrial PhD Academy
2020 THE Research Supervisor Award
2020 The RIA USA Research Innovation Award
2019 Selected as The Ophthalmologist Power List, as one of ten people chosen for the Emerging Leaders Category https://theophthalmologist.com/power-list/2019#emerging%20leaders
2019 Selected as The Ophthalmologist Power List, as one of ten people chosen for the Inventors Category https://theophthalmologist.com/power-list/2019#inventors
2019 PhD Student Kathleen Christie award Best PhD Thesis Prize, Ulster University
2019 Winner Ulster Excellence Awards Avellino and Ulster – Global Category
2019 Finalist Ulster Excellence Awards Sisaf and Ulster – SME Category
2018 PhD Student Kathleen Christie awarded John RE Scott Postgraduate Student of the Year Award for 2018
2016 Awarded prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship (989 applicants).
2016 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship 2016. Professor Tara Moore was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to enable her to travel out of the UK for a period of up to 8 weeks, to Universities of her choosing, with one overarching objective to increase and retain the number of females in STEM related careers in the UK and globally. Tara was one of the 100 applicants out of the 1200 who applied to be awarded a fellowship.
2016 Selected as ‘Top 100’ healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland by Northern Ireland Healthcare Review.
2015 University of Ulster Convocation Postgraduate Student of the Year Award 2015. Professor Tara Moore was supervisor for the PhD postgraduate student who was awarded the convocation postgraduate student of the year award
2014 Prestigious WISE (Women in to Science & Engineering) Hero Award, London. Professor Tara Moore. HRH The Princess Royal presented Tara with the prestigious WISE (Women in to Science & Engineering) Hero Award in London in recognition of the contribution she makes to health, well being, safety and improving people’s lives through science and technology
2014 Women in Business, Northern Ireland. Advancing Diversity in the Workplace Award. Tara was honoured to win the Women in Business NI Award for Advancing Diversity in the Workplace. This award recognises a business and / or an individual who has championed diversity within the workplace and can demonstrate the benefits of this.
2014 6th Ocular Diseases & Drug Discovery Conference, March 2014. Sarah Atkinson gave an oral presentation at the recent GTC conference on ocular disease and drug discovery . Her abstract was chosen for the ‘Oral Presentations from Exemplary Submitted Abstracts’ section of the conference. This annual conference provides delegates with presentations on novel and innovative therapeutics for ocular disorders, providing excellent opportunities for networking to bring innovative treatments to ophthalmology patients.
2014 Vision Translational Research Group 2014 Conference, Belfast. Professor Tara Moore is supervisor for the First Year PhD student, Eleonora Maurizi, who was awarded the best poster presentation prize award. The poster presentation was ‘Development of Allele-specific Therapeutic siRNA Keratin 12 Leu132Pro in Meesmann’s Epithelial Corneal Dystrophy’.
2014 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship 2014. Professor Tara Moore is Supervisor for the PhD who was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to enable him to travel out of the UK for a period of up to 8 weeks, to a laboratory of his choosing, to learn techniques that will further his PhD studies within Ulster. This year there were 1,182 applicants of which 255 were interviewed in London. David was one of the 137 applicants out of the 1182 who applied to be awarded a fellowship.
2013 Irish Society of Human Genetics 2013 Scientific Meeting. Professor Tara Moore is supervisor for the PhD student who was awarded the ‘Young Investigator Award for Best Postgraduate Oral Presentation’. The Oral presentation is entitled ‘Assessment of allele-specific gene silencing siRNAs in an ex vivo pre-clinical model of lattice type I corneal dystrophy’.
2013 Irish Society of Human Genetics 2013 Scientific Meeting. This poster presentation was awarded the best post-doctoral poster prize award. SD Atkinson, AHM Heagerty, IM Leigh, C Pourreyron, I Szeverenyi, FJ Smith, CBT Moore, WHI McLean. Development of therapeutic siRNA for an epidermolysis bullosa simplex causing mutation in keratin 5.
2012 University of Ulster Convocation Postgraduate Student of the Year Award 2012. Tara Moore was supervisor for the MD postgraduate student who was awarded the convocation postgraduate student of the year award
2011 Selected for the 2012 Edition of Who’s who in the World.
2011 The National Eye Institute Travel Grant. Travel Grant Award to present at ARVO Fort Lauderdale, USA.
2011 Team research presented by post doctoral researcher has been honoured with a prestigious award recognising their work in the field of immunology. The 2011 Cora Verhagen Immunology Award was given to the best presentation of research at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
2009 Royal Society of Medicine and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine postgraduate research prize. Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student who was awarded the postgraduate research prize for his Masters of Science research project. [Read more] and [Read more]
2009 Most Read Paper awarded for manuscript, “Concordance between common dry eye diagnostic tests” ranked third in top 10 most read papers in the British Journal of Ophthalmology [Read more]
2006-2008 Most read paper in Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine for the paper by Janet Hall & Tara Moore 2008 Jul;15 (5):p 291-7. [Read more]
2008 Royal Society of Medicine and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine postgraduate research prize. Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student who was awarded the postgraduate research prize for her Masters of Science research project. [Read more]
2007 International Society of Ocular Oncology best poster presentation prize. Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student awarded a prize for the research entitled: P63 expression in conjunctival proliferative diseases.
2007 Distinguished Research Fellowship Award. Tara Moore was awarded the Distinguished Research Fellowship award by the University of Ulster in recognition of her contributions to biomedical research. [Read more]
2005 National Teaching Fellowship Award. Tara Moore was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship Award by the Higher Education Academy in 2005 which recognises innovative and inspiring teaching: [Read more]
2005 Rising Star HEA Award. £50,000 was awarded to Tara Moore to pilot a new online postgraduate multidisciplinary program in Cataract and Refractive Surgery for professions allied to Ophthalmology.
2004 Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award. Tara Moore was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award by the University of Ulster for her innovative contribution to online teaching [Read more]
2000 Pharmacia & Upjohn Travel Award for attendance at Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA.
2000 Dr. Samuel Ireland Turkington Research Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, QUB. Support for secondment to Boston to conduct collaborative research with Professor AP Adamis in Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
2000 The Wellcome Trust Research Travel Grant funded secondment to MEEI, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
1999 Pharmacia & Upjohn Travel Award for presentation of research findings at Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
1999 Research & Development Personal Bursary. Support for secondment to MEEI, Harvard Medical School, Boston.