RESEARCH & INNOVATION DELIVERS RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
RCSI’s strategic investment in people and research infrastructure in recent years has paid dividends with high-impact publications in top-tier research journals, outstanding growth in funding and more collaboration with industry and other institutions worldwide.
RCSI research impact in
2018 GRANT INCOME:
€29.1
2018
MILLION
RCSI HAS THE HIGHEST OVERALL SUCCESS RATE ON H2020 SUBMISSIONS (28%, IRISH AND EUROPEAN AVERAGE = 15%)
15
INVENTION DISCLOSURES
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INDUSTRY FUNDING FOR RESEARCH:
3.3 MILLION IN 2018
Citation Impact:
International Collaboration
51.5%
of RCSI’s publications (2013-2017) were co-authored with institutions in other countries
4
NEW PATENTS FILED
RCSI’s field-weighted citation impact (2013-2017) is twice the world average and ranks 102nd in the world.
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MORE THAN
650 PUBMED INDEXED ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN 2018
COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH INDUSTRY SIGNED IN 2018 The Times Higher Education University Rankings score for the category “industry income to academic staff member” has increased from 28 in 2014 to 45.7 in 2018.
Dr Annie Curtis
CHEMOGEL, AN RCSI PIPELINE SPIN-OUT COMPANY PRESENTS AT BIG IDEAS 2018
Dr Helena Kelly, School of Pharmacy, RCSI was selected to pitch her RCSI spin-out opportunity, ChemoGel, at Big Ideas 2018. ChemoGel aims to improve overall survival of pancreatic cancer patients by increasing the percentage of patients who are eligible for surgery by reducing the tumour burden in patients who are currently considered unsuitable for surgery due to tumour size. Big Ideas is a high profile event that empowers the front runners in Irish research commercialisation to take centre stage and pitch their technology solutions and business propositions to an audience of entrepreneurs and investors. Funded by an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation grant, ChemoGel is a unique, thermoresponsive gel drug delivery platform which enables site specific delivery and sustained release of chemotherapeutics at solid tumour sites. ChemoGel’s lead clinical indication is pancreatic cancer which has the highest rate of death per incidence of any cancer.
