RCSI NEWS
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RCSI students with Professor Hannah McGee, Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, RCSI; Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Pat Breen TD; An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD; Professor Cathal Kelly, Chief Executive, RCSI; and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD.
NEW FUND, NEW PROJECT An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD and Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, announced 27 ground-breaking projects to share the first tranche of the €75m Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund at a special event in RCSI in December 2018. Professor Donal O'Shea, Head of Department of Chemistry, RCSI will lead one of the successfully funded projects. Awarded €5.7m, this project aims to transform the diagnosis and surgical treatment of Gastro-Intestinal (GI) diseases, specifically cancer, and is being led by RCSI and Mater University Hospital, UCD in partnership with Deciphex Ltd and IBM Research.
l FutureNeuro, a €13.6m SFI Research Centre has been launched at RCSI. The centre aims to translate breakthroughs in understanding of brain structure and function to transform the patient journey for people with neurological diseases. Visit futureneurocentre.ie Professor Orla Hardiman, Consultant Neurologist & FutureNeuro Principal Investigator; Professor David Henshall, Professor of Molecular Physiology & Neuroscience, RCSI and Centre Director for FutureNeuro; and Jack Banks, PhD student at the FutureNeuro Centre.
RCSI Maintains Position in Top 250
RCSI has been ranked among the top 250 (top 2%) of universities worldwide in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings announced in September 2018. RCSI has maintained its worldwide position in the #201- 250 category and ranks second out of nine institutions in the Republic of Ireland. RCSI’s performance in the rankings is linked in particular to its continued strength in the citations pillar, with a field-weighted citation impact that is the highest in Ireland and twice the world average. These indicators provide a strong evidence base for RCSI’s impactful research in translational health sciences in areas including cancer, neuroscience, population health and health services, regenerative medicine, surgical science and practice and vascular biology.
Malaysia Update
RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus (RUMC – formerly Penang Medical College, PMC) was officially launched in September 2018 by then Minister Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Education and Skills. The institution’s upgrade to Foreign University Branch Campus was approved by the Malaysian MOE in March this year with its full name Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and University College Dublin (UCD) Malaysia Campus. Professor Stephen Doughty, President, RUMC said, “As we celebrate this momentous achievement as the first of many RUMC milestones, we know that we are building upon more than 20 years of PMC’s high quality Irish education delivery. We continue to support the development of healthcare in Malaysia and were delighted to recently sign a MoU with the Ministry of Health to establish a new pathway for Family Medicine training for doctors in Malaysia.”
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