Amgen Biotech Experience Celebrates Reaching One Million Students Worldwide
The milestone was marked with a special event in a Greystones school last week, which was attended by Taoiseach Simon Harris and Amgen CEO Bob Bradway, as well as ABE Ireland team including Walter Kolch, Helen Roche, Elaine Quinn, Anna Wedderburn and Ananya Ramesh.
16 September, 2024 Read More
Celebrating a Decade of Impact: ABE Ireland Awards Grants to Innovative Teachers
ABE Ireland is 10 years old! In celebration of this anniversary and its pivotal role in the Amgen Biotech Experience’s (ABE) 1 millionth student milestone, ABE Ireland has announced a series of special grant awards to four exceptional teachers.
11 September, 2024 Read More
ABE Ireland programme shortlisted in 2024 Chambers Ireland Sustainable Business Impact Awards
The Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Ireland programme at University College Dublin is among 71 projects shortlisted across fourteen award categories in the 2024 Sustainable Business Impact Award by Chambers Ireland.
27 August, 2024 Read More
UCD Researchers recognised in SFI Frontiers for the Future Awards
Seven UCD researchers, including SBI's Walter Kolch and Cormac Taylor, have been successful in the latest round of the SFI Frontiers for the Future programme awards valued at €34 million.
06 June, 2024 Read More2024 Research Fellowship Awards to support three exciting disease intervention research projects
Awards are supported by Systems Biology Ireland (UCD) and Quantitative Biosciences Institute (UCSF) and in the area of network biology and drug/drug target discovery
11 April, 2024 Read More
Breaking new ground in medicine: COVend welcomes the first patients in the pioneering ARDS clinical trial IXION 2.0
The EU-funded COVend consortium announces the enrolment of first patients in the IXION 2.0 clinical trial at the Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt. Prof. Günther Eissner and Dr. Vadim Zhernovkov of SBI are currently studying FX06 with their groups as part of this consortium.
04 April, 2024 Read More
New review from SBI Professor Donal Brennan and colleagues, part of The Lancet 2024 Series on menopause
Professor Donal Brennan of Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) University College Dublin has published a featured review on menopause treatment for cancer patients in this week’s issue of the high-impact journal, The Lancet.
05 March, 2024 Read More
SBI's Luke Jones wins Irish Cancer Society Senior Researcher of the Year Award 2024
People involved in ground-breaking research projects around the country were honoured at the Irish Cancer Society Research Awards on Friday, Feb 23rd at Regent House, Trinity College Dublin. Among those to claim top honours was Senior Researcher of the Year Award Winner, Dr Luke Jones.
04 March, 2024 Read More
Ministers Harris and Foley announce funding for 38 projects to inspire STEM public engagement, including SBI's 'Let's Chat Medicine'
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, and Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, have today announced a €5 million investment in 38 projects which encourage understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
28 February, 2024 Read More
Let’s Chat Medicine: An innovative public engagement and involvement programme in health-related research
Systems Biology Ireland at UCD has launched Let’s Chat Medicine (LCM), a new public engagement and involvement (PEI) initiative in the health-related research area, working in collaboration with Barretstown and the Young Person’s Advisory Group at the National Children’s Cancer Service.
02 February, 2024 Read More
HRCI 2024 Position Paper
A recently released report by Health Research Charities Ireland (HRCI), a national umbrella organisation of over 45 charities in Ireland, has provided some excellent guidelines and recommendations for how we can all work to improve health research in Ireland.
02 February, 2024 Read More
QBI/UCSF and SBI Launch Collaborative Network Biology and Drug/Drug Target Discovery RFA
The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at University of California, San Francisco in collaboration with Systems Biology Ireland have announced a call for joint grants between QBI/UCSF and UCD scientists. A total of $150K was secured by both institutions for the initiative.
17 November, 2023 Read More
Research from SBI's Donal Brennan and Mater Hospital team shows multidisciplinary surgical approach to advanced ovarian cancer significantly reduces death rate and progression of disease
'Annals of Surgical Oncology' publishes study which shows that 3-year survival has improved by 70 percent for advanced ovarian cancer patients.
27 October, 2023 Read More
QBI/SBI Symposium highlights international collaboration of multidisciplinary experts
The QBI/SBI Symposium on Molecular Networks of Cancer and Other Diseases will be held in The O’Reilly Hall at UCD from October 16 – 18, 2023. The free three-day event led by Walter Kolch (SBI) and Nevan Korgan (QBI) will feature more than 33 speakers from across the world.
13 October, 2023 Read More
Coming October 2023: QBI/SBI Symposium on Molecular Networks of Cancer & Other Diseases
The teams at SBI and the Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI) at the University of California, San Francisco, are delighted to announce the 2nd QBI/SBI Symposium on Molecular Networks of Cancer & Other Diseases, to be held in person at University College Dublin from 16 – 18 October, 2023.
24 August, 2023 Read More
DevelopMed MSCA COFUND Call 3 Now Open!
Call 3 of System Biology Ireland's DevelopMed MSCA COFUND Programme is open for applications. The closing date is 25 June 2023.
01 May, 2023 Read More
SFI Discover award for CuriosiTY, a placement programme to broaden participation in STEM
SBI and UCD Conway Institute have received a SFI Discover award for CuriosiTY, a transition year placement programme to broaden participation in STEM.
06 March, 2023 Read More
SBI €5k Small Research Project Scheme winners announced
On Dec 16, Prof. Walter Kolch announced the winners of our first SBI Small Research Project Scheme. PhD student, Nourhan Aboud and Postdoctoral Researcher, Elena Merino Tejero (both members of the Gomez-Matallanas Group) were awarded €5,000 for the upcoming project.
22 December, 2022 Read More
HSE Launches First National Genetics and Genomics Strategy for Ireland
Today the HSE launches the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic & Genomic Medicine in Ireland. The strategy was developed in collaboration with the Dept of Health and healthcare professionals, international experts, academics, patient representatives and advocates, including SBI's Walter Kolch
13 December, 2022 Read More
Science Foundation Ireland recognises Prof. Walter Kolch with SFI Mentorship Award 2022
The winners of the prestigious 2022 Science Foundation Ireland Awards were revealed at the annual SFI Science Summit in Limerick on November 21st. SBI's Prof. Walter Kolch received the SFI Mentorship Award 2022 at this event.
21 November, 2022 Read More
SBI Goes Green!
SBI is very proud to announce that we have received a ‘Green’ distinction, the highest level awarded by non-profit organisation My Green Lab Certification.
30 September, 2022 Read More
cSTAR concept unveiled in Nature
Researchers at Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) have developed a new method called cell state transition assessment and regulation (cSTAR), which can distinguish healthy and diseased cell states using molecular data and identify the key molecules that characterize the different states.
14 September, 2022 Read More
SBI Team enjoys busy summer
While the UCD campus may have gone quiet over the summer months, SBI has remained a hub of activity. Take a look to see what we've been up to in June and July this year.
18 August, 2022 Read More
SBI researchers awarded SFI Frontiers for the Future funding
SBI Investigators Jonathan Bond and Colm Ryan were recently both recipients of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Frontiers for the Future funding awards.
07 June, 2022 Read More
International Women's Day focus on women's health with Prof. Donal Brennan
In honour of International Women's Day, we have asked SBI Investigator Prof. Donal Brennan to share some of his expertise in the field of women's health, with a particular focus on gynaecological health.
08 March, 2022 Read More
Upcoming QBI/SBI Virtual Seminar Features Dr. Trever Bivona, UCSF
The next QBI/SBI virtual seminar on molecular networks of cancer and other diseases will be March 2, 2022, 5 pm Irish Standard Time and will feature Dr. Trever Bivona, Professor of Medicine, joint with Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, at the University of California, San Francisco.
23 February, 2022 Read More
SBI researchers embark on ground breaking clinical trial
In what is being hailed as a “milestone achievement,” a mathematical modelling system developed by Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) at University College Dublin will be used as a basis for treating pancreatic cancer patients in a Phase II clinical trial in the United States.
07 January, 2022 Read More
The EU invests in a promising new COVID-19 therapy
The COVend research project aims to deliver a new therapy against COVID-19 that prevents the severe stages of the disease. SBI's Prof. Günther Eissner is part of this exciting new initiative.
16 November, 2021 Read More
QBI/SBI collaboration continues with virtual seminar series
Last month, QBI-UCSF and SBI launched a new virtual seminar series, featuring Dr. Danielle Swaney (QBI) as the first speaker. The next seminar will be November 9, 2021, 6 pm Irish Standard Time with SBI’s Dr. Dirk Fey as speaker.
01 November, 2021 Read More
SBI's POI program announces a new research project studying childhood blood cancers
Precision Oncology Ireland announces a new project using precision oncology to tackle a deadly disease affecting children. Led by Prof. Jonathan Bond, the project aims to to utilize high-throughput approaches to understand molecular vulnerabilities in High-Risk Childhood Blood Cancers.
19 October, 2021 Read MoreSBI brings awareness to childhood cancer
September was Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and SBI used the opportunity to highlight the centre’s research in the childhood cancer sphere and also bring attention to patient and charity organisations that support families throughout the cancer journey.
08 October, 2021 Read More
Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme ‘DevelopMed’ Call 2 Now Open
Call 2 of the ‘Developing the Next Generation of Research Leaders in Precision Oncology’ (DevelopMed) Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme is now officially open and runs until the 30th of November 2021.
28 September, 2021 Read More
SBI Announces New Scientific Advisory Board
Systems Biology Ireland announced nine new Scientific Advisory Board members this week. The board, which has a 6-year term, has been an integral part of SBI since its inception in 2009.
28 July, 2021 Read More
SBI Researchers combat cancer drug resistance with novel signaling analysis
Drug resistance in cancer therapy is one of the grand challenges facing doctors and scientists in modern medicine. According to a study published today in Cell Reports, researchers at Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) have been working to predict and combat these resistances... [more]
25 May, 2021 Read More
Bond Group Aims to ‘Close the Gap’ on Childhood Leukaemia in Tanzania
Thanks to a funding award of more than €90,390 from The Little Princess Trust in partnership with CCLG, Prof. Jonathan Bond and Dr. Peter McCarthy are helping treat children with leukaemia in Tanzania in a collaboration with the international NGO, WeAreTLM. Read more about the project here.
16 April, 2021 Read More
Melinda Halasz recognised with UCD Teaching & Learning Award
SBI Group Leader Melinda Halasz received the prestigious UCD Teaching & Learning Award this week in an online ceremony, one of only 13 out of more than 3000 nominations.
26 March, 2021 Read More
SBI/Conway Transition Year project awarded SFI Discover Programme funding
The SFI Discover Programme has funded an exciting new Transition Year placement week run by Systems Biology Ireland and the Conway Institute. The joint SBI-Conway project is called "Ensuring equity of access to a STEM placement programme" and will begin in April 2021.
24 March, 2021 Read More
CMAP, The Complete Mass Spectrometry Resource
Just a year and half after receiving €2.68 million in Science Foundation Ireland infrastructure funding, SBI’s Comprehensive Molecular Analysis Platform (CMAP) at UCD is fully operational and has recently launched a new webpage.
03 March, 2021 Read More
DevelopMed Call 1 Now Open!
Call 1 of the ‘Developing the Next Generation of Research Leaders in Precision Oncology’ (DevelopMed) Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme is now officially open and runs until the 31st of March 2021.
02 February, 2021 Read More
€1.32 million in EU funding to support training the next generation of research leaders in precision oncology
Today marks the official launch of a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND programme, ‘Developing the Next Generation of Research Leaders in Precision Oncology’ (DevelopMed).
09 December, 2020 Read More
QBI/SBI Symposium on Molecular Networks of Cancer and Other Diseases – the Virtual Edition
On October 29 – 30, SBI will be co-hosting an online symposium with the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at University of California San Francisco. The event features 19 speakers from across UCD and UCSF and is free of charge.
16 October, 2020 Read More
Childhood cancer researcher Luke Jones explores more effective treatments for a form of paediatric blood cancer
Postdoc Luke Jones is an Irish Cancer Society funded researcher who is due to begin work on a project which will look at more effective treatments for a form of paediatric blood cancer.
02 October, 2020 Read More
SBI-led MSc in AI for Medicine and Medical Research Open for Enrollment
Enrollment is now open for an exciting new Masters programme at UCD, developed by Walter Kolch, Dirk Fey and Eadaoin McKiernan of Systems Biology Ireland (SBI). The one-of-a-kind MSc in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Research will start in Autumn 2020.
24 June, 2020 Read More
Clarify Project, Big Data and AI to improve care for cancer survivors
The EU-funded CLARIFY project will identify the risk factors that impact cancer patient´s quality of life after oncological treatment by using Big Data and AI. Data from more than 15,000 survivors from breast, lung and lymphoma cancer (the most prevalent types) will be analyzed for this purpose.
19 June, 2020 Read More
SBI international collaboration culminates in Nature Communications paper, published today
An international collaboration between SBI and the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute has led to the publication of a new paper on RAS mutation today in the prestigious Nature Communications.
24 January, 2020 Read More
Minister Humphreys, Patient Panel Make POI Launch Special Occasion
More than 90 scientists, cancer patients, academic, charity and industry representatives gathered on Tuesday, November 26, to launch the new Precision Oncology Ireland research programme at University College Dublin.
29 November, 2019 Read More
€11.9 million SFI research collaboration targets precision oncology
Irish Charity, Industry and University sector combine forces to improve cancer patient outcomes
26 November, 2019 Read More
3TR: SBI joins 69 European partners in largest-ever Innovative Medicine Initiative 2 (IMI2) immunology project
This large-scale public-private research initiative will provide new insights into the mechanisms of response and non-response to treatment within and across seven different immune-mediated diseases through integrated, cross-disease analysis of the most state-of-the-art profiling technologies.
29 October, 2019 Read More
UCD's CMAP One of Six Awarded Infrastructure Funding
Director of Systems Biology Ireland Walter Kolch has been awarded €2.68m through the SFI Research Infrastructure Programme for his comprehensive molecular analysis platform (CMAP) project.
23 October, 2019 Read More
Bond Group Success at HAI
It was a highly successful weekend for Professor Jonathan Bond’s group at the Annual Meeting of the Haematology Association of Ireland in Galway. Prof. Bond gave an invited lecture and two Bond group members received prestigious awards.
16 October, 2019 Read More
University College Dublin and University of California Sign Agreement to Strengthen Research and Training Links
UCD has today announced the signing of a 5-year International Unit Affiliation Agreement (IUAA) with the University of California, San Francisco to develop closer educational, research, innovation and cultural links between between both institutions.
24 September, 2019 Read More
David Gomez Matallanas Named Assistant Professor, Awarded Ad Astra Fellowship
Now celebrating his tenth year at SBI, Group Leader David Gomez Matallanas has just been named an assistant professor and Ad Astra fellow at UCD. He reflects on the last decade as he looks forward to the future in the following Q&A.
04 September, 2019 Read More
Fellowship and Funding: Dirk Fey
SBI Group Leader Dr. Dirk Fey was recently named an Ad Astra fellow and was also separately awarded funding from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Initiative. He discusses both in the following Q & A.
19 August, 2019 Read More
PhD Student Bokharaie Wins Prestigious Award
PhD student Honey Bokharaie of the Rauch Group has been awarded a prestigious fellowship, placing 8th overall out of 2,000 applicants.
12 July, 2019 Read More
SBI Welcomes Summer Interns
Four international interns have joined the Systems Biology Ireland team this summer.
26 June, 2019 Read More
SBI Celebrates 10 Years
On 23 May, 2019, SBI students, staff and alumni celebrated the centre's 10th Anniversary.
24 May, 2019 Read More
SBI Professors Bond and Smith in National News
SBI Professors Jonathan Bond and Owen Smith have been featured a number of times in the Irish national press recently.
30 April, 2019 Read More
SBI Launches New Website
On April 1, 2019, the new Systems Biology Website officially went live. The project was over a year in the making and integrated ideas and collaborations from all corners of SBI.
01 April, 2019 Read More
New data integration method deciphers RAS oncoprotein functions
SBI Researchers have developed a new method for integrating and analysing different types of molecular cancer data in order to disrupt the signaling systems of cancer-causing RAS proteins, according to a study published this week in Cell Reports.
13 March, 2019 Read More
SBI Year-End Highlights
It has been a stand-out year at Systems Biology Ireland! But before jumping into 2019, we would be remiss not to highlight just a few of our most significant achievements of the past 12 months.
20 December, 2018 Read More