RCSI Professor elected President of Healthcare Infection Society
Professor Hilary Humphreys, Head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology, RCSI has been elected President of the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS). Professor Humphreys, who is also Dean of the...
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Dr Kate Coleman awarded RCSI Leadership Medal
Dr Kate Coleman, consultant ophthalmologic surgeon and founder of Right to Sight, was today awarded a Leadership Medal by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) in honour of her work to eliminate...
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Students get a taste for medicine, pharmacy and physiotherapy at RCSI Open Day
More than 800 students from second-level schools throughout Ireland will explore RCSIs state-of-the-art facilities at 26 York Street while learning about life as a medical, pharmacy and physiotherapy...
View ArticleNew study finds adults with cerebral palsy 28% more at risk of depression and...
A new study, led by researchers from RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and the University of Surrey, has found that adults with cerebral palsy are significantly more at risk for depression...
View ArticleRCSI researchers develop new tuberculosis treatment
Led by researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), a team of researchers has developed a new treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This work could offer a practical treatment that has the...
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Tyrone student scoops RCSI Award at BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition
Oran Timoney from Holy Cross College in Strabane, Co Tyrone has won the RCSI Award for the "Project with the Best Impact on Human Health" at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS...
View ArticleRCSI researchers awarded SFI grants as part of €10.8 million government...
Minister Breen announces funding for 20 SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant projects today Two RCSI researchers have received funding as part of a Government investment of €10.8 million in...
View ArticleRCSI research seeks to identify alternative healthcare structures to manage...
RCSI researchers, alongside researchers from the University of Manchester, have reviewed alternative ways of organising health services in order to determine appropriate pressure ulcer treatment and...
View ArticleRCSI professor named joint recipient of €1m NSF and SFI research grant
Fergal O’Brien, Professor of Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine in the Department of Anatomy; Head of the Tissue Engineering Research Group; and Deputy Director of the AMBER Research Centre, has...
View ArticleRCSI and IRFU Charitable Trust launch partnership to advance research in...
AMBER SFI Research Centre, Leinster Schools Rugby and World Rugby will support the research RCSI and the IRFU Charitable Trust have launched a research partnership, with the support of the AMBER SFI...
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RCSI researchers develop new treatment for bone infection using copper-rich...
A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis. Funded by Irish Research...
View ArticleRCSI’s Teddy Bear Hospital helps kids treat their teddies while getting...
Over 350 children, aged between 4 - 10, brought their sick or injured teddies to the fifth annual RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Teddy Bear Hospital on Saturday, 2 February and Sunday, 3...
View ArticleLongest-sitting female MP in Canada and RCSI alumna Dr Hedy Fry returns to RCSI
Dr Hedy Fry will join Dr Ciara Kelly in conversation as part of Charter Day 2019 Dr Hedy Fry, Class of 1968, will return to RCSI tonight to address students, alumni and guests at an event to mark the...
View ArticleFormer President of Ireland Mary Robinson to be presented with Emily Winifred...
Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will today be presented with the...
View ArticleRCSI researchers receive SFI Technology Innovation Development Awards
Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, today announced €4.5 million in...
View ArticleRCSI President urges Government to keep Sláintecare commitment to build...
Speaking on RCSI’s annual Charter Day meeting for surgeons, RCSI President Mr Kenneth Mealy has urged the Government to deliver three elective hospitals as promised in Sláintecare. The capital health...
View ArticleNational study on access to surgical services shows substantial regional...
County of residence appears to have an influence on a patients’ accessibility to certain surgical procedures, according to research led by RCSI. The national study on geographical variation in access...
View ArticleTraining doctors in responding to adverse events critical to success of open...
Training doctors in how to handle what happens when things go wrong in their clinical practice must be a central component of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, according to Professor...
View ArticleRCSI students host International Conference for Healthcare and Medical...
The International Conference for Healthcare and Medical Students (ICHAMS) conference is currently underway at RCSI and continues until Saturday, 23 February. ICHAMS is a conference for undergraduate...
View ArticleTransition Year students get a close look at medical fields at RCSI
As part of the RCSI Transition Year MiniMed Programme, 250 students will hear from the countrys top medical experts while getting hands on experience during a five-day programme that begins today at...
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