David Courtney has been 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. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust was established after Sir Winston Churchill’s death […]
Best Post Doctoral Poster Presentation awarded to Vision Science Group member
Dr Sarah Atkinson was awarded the prize for best Post-doctoral poster presentation at the recent 16th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Irish Society of Human Genetics at Belfast City Hospital. Her poster on the development of therapeutic siRNAs generated exciting discussions with her fellow delegates
Young investigator award for best postgraduate oral presentation
David Courtney recently presented his research at the Irish Society of Human Genetics 2013 where he won the young investigator award for best postgraduate oral presentation. Courtesy of the Irish Society of Human Genetics David will attend the 2014 conference in Milan where he will present the recent data obtained during his PhD studies with […]
Fight for Sight UK fund a second Project Grant for the Moore Research Team at Ulster
The Vision Science Research team at Ulster have successfully obtained a further 3 years funding to continue their innovative research into the development of genetic tools to modify the front of the eye and potentially eliminate blindness caused by a number of eye disorders. The project involves In vivo proof-of-concept for two gene silencing technologies […]
Charitable expedition with the Andean Medical Mission
Tara Moore and her husband Consultant Ophthalmologist Professor Johnny Moore are heading up the Amazon River on a charitable expedition with the Andean Medical Mission; a UK charity within the Bolivian Andes and Amazon. Johnny will lead a surgical unit carrying out sight saving eye surgery on people who are unable to access Ophthalmologists. While […]
New Lecturer attends workshop on data analysis to facilitate stratification of eye diseases
In February 2014, Sarah Atkinson attended a workshop on next generation sequencing and microarray data analysis in Belfast run by Partek. These techniques generate huge amounts of data and the aim of the course was to provide researchers with a deeper understanding of the processes involved in data analysis. Sarah will use the insight gained […]
A Japanese chapter
During the first three months of her PhD Eleonora Maurizi had the opportunity to travel to Japan in order to improve her expertise in corneal endothelial cell culture, subject of her research since her MSc graduation thesis. In Japan she worked alongside the group of Prof Koizumi at Doshisha University of Kyoto, pioneer in this […]
International Accolade For Ulster Researcher
A University of Ulster researcher has been honoured with a prestigious award recognising her work in the field of immunology. Dr Victoria McGilligan, a Research Fellow at the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, has been awarded the 2011 Cora Verhagen Immunology Award given to the best presentation of research at the Association for Research in Vision […]
Boost for Ulster Cornea Research
Leading eye research charity, Fight for Sight, has awarded over £157,000 to a research project led by the University of Ulster and the University of Dundee to develop a treatment for various forms of corneal dystrophy – a group of inherited disorders leading to constant irritation of the surface of the eye and progressive visual […]
Corneal Transplant At The Mater Hospital Belfast
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