Tara Moore is a role model for the Aurora – Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Aurora has been designed to help address the issue of the reducing numbers of women in senior posts in the higher education sector as outlined in the Leadership Foundation’s Stimulus Paper ‘Women and Higher Education: Absences and Aspiration’ by Professor Louise […]

  Professor Tara Moore is invited speaker at the University of Limerick Athena SWAN Launch and International Women’s Day Conference, Irish Chamber Orchestra building, University of Limerick, March 8th, 2016 Tara will talk about women in STEMM, her own area of expertise and research and her career to date. Read the full Conference Brochure:   Final Conference Brochure […]

  Professor Tara Moore is an invited speaker at Women into STEM, NI Science Festival, Belfast Metropolitan College, Titanic Quarter Campus, February 25th, 2016. Belfast Metropolitan College is hosting a ‘STEM in Action’ event on Thursday 25th February in its Titanic Quarter Campus. This event will be included in the NI Science Festival programme. Belfast […]

  Professor Tara Moore, Director of Ulster University’s Biomedical Research Institute, has been selected as a mentor for the 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures programme run by the New York Academy for Sciences’ Global STEM Alliance. The mentoring programme aims to address the challenge of getting young women involved in careers in science, technology, engineering and […]

David Courtney will today graduate with a PhD in molecular biology after spending the last three years as part of a team of Ulster University scientists pioneering research into the world’s first cure for hereditary blindness under the supervision of Professor Tara Moore. David’s research focused on developing personalised medicine that targets and repairs genetic […]

  Professor Tara Moore was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to enable her to travel outside of the UK for a period of up to 8 weeks, to Universities of her choosing in USA and Europe, with one overarching objective to increase and retain the number of females in STEM related careers in the UK and globally. Tara […]

  EVER is the leading ophthalmological research association in Europe which covers all areas of ophthalmology and the visual sciences.   Tara Moore was invited speaker on ‘Genetic modification possibilities in treating corneal diseases’ at EVER, Nice, France: October 7-10, 2015. Tara was also Panel Moderator for the Special Interest Symposium ‘Corneal stem cells – from benchside to […]

  This years ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington will be attended by the Ulster Vision Science Research Group. Tara Moore is an invited speaker at the ‘Genome Engineering: From Discovery to Therapy’ Workshop.  Tara and senior lecturer, Andrew Nesbit will deliver presentations on ‘The Use of CRISPR-Cas9 to treat Corneal Disease’, ‘Practical Applications: gene therapy’, ‘Single guide RNA design […]

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