RCSI TERG

Read all about how TERG researchers like @iWoodsie are developing 3D-printed implants to help repair spinal cord injuries below!

Great to have 'PolyGraph – Flexible, Biocompatible & Electrically Optimized Graphene-Polymer Composites for Next-Generation Neural Interfaces' published in Advanced Healthcare Materials! Read the article here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

A great turnout today for the launch of the PPI Ignite Network Phase II! The launch included discussion panels and an introduction from Head of TERG @fjobrien. Great to have so many PPI collaborators, research staff and RCSI president Deborah McNamara in attendance.

StAR Lecturer @iWoodsie presenting on his research to date on electroconducive 3D-printed MXene based scaffolds for neural repair applications at #TERMIS 2026 today!

Congratulations to Juan Carlos Palomeque and Amanda Fantini de Camargo Andrade who were presenting on their research today at #TERMIS 2026!

Well done to Rena Mullally and Michela Uberti who presented recently at #TERMIS 2026 on the research they have been conducting as part of their PhDs!

Great to have Eoin O'Cearbhaill and Thomas Lijnse in TERG today to give a guest seminar on 'Optimising the Interface between Medical Devices and Soft Tissue for the Delivery of Biologics and Cell-based Therapies'!

Be sure to catch some of our wonderful researchers presenting talks and posters as part of #TERMIS 2026 this week! #TERGonTour

Congratulations to Louise Hosty and Franz Lobianco who presented their research at #TERMIS 2026 today in Palma de Mallorca! #TERGonTour

Great to have Prof John Mulvihill from the University of Limerick with us in @RCSI_Irl today to give an excellent seminar on the role of meningitis in concussion.

We were delighted to host Professor Maria Kavallaris from the Children's Cancer Institute, Australia, today at @RCSI_Irl. As part of her visit Professor Kavallaris gave an excellent seminar entitled 'Technologies, Big Impact: Engineering Childhood Cancer for Precision Medicine'.

Congrats to Tian Carey & @iWoodsie recent postdoctoral researchers on AMBER funded & linked research projects who have been awarded @royalsociety – Research Ireland University Research Fellowships. ambercentre.ie/amber-research… #advancedmaterials #bioengineering

We were delighted to welcome Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD and Minister @lawlessj to our labs yesterday for the opening of 118 St Stephen's Green, where the Taoiseach spoke with spinal cord injury activist and TERG PPI collaborator Ciaran McCarthy, and head of TERG @fjobrien

Cian O'Connor speaking this week at the SMA European Congress about how biomimetic viscoelastic hydrogels promote motor neuron outgrowth and modulate astrocyte behaviour for Spinal Muscular Atrophy regeneration applications! This work is kindly supported by the SMA Foundation.

Wonderful to have Magnus Tägil with us in @RCSI_Irl today to give a seminar entitled 'Balancing Brakes and Accelerators in Bone Healing. The BMP History with a Swedish perspective and the Future Role Of BMPs in Orthopaedic Therapies'!

Multimodal characterization of sustained bioagent release from an epicardial depot for long-term biomaterial incorporation - ScienceDirect share.google/M6XSL2tC6hvi7R…

Congratulations to StAR MD student Lylas Aljohmani on being awarded the 1st prize for her oral presentation at the Irish Hand Surgery Society annual meeting 2026! 🥳

Huge congratulations to Marko Dobricic for winning the Image Prize, and to Juan Carlos Palomeque for being awarded the best early career researcher presentation at the @RCSI_Irl Research Day 2026! 🥳🥳

Hadeel Abu Shaqrah presenting at the RCSI Research Day on her work to date on the development of a zonal composite scaffold for load-bearing and cell-derived regeneration of articular cartilage!

Juan Carlos Palomeque presenting his research entitled 'On-demand and scaffold-based delivery of miRNAs to enhance regenerative outcomes in chronic wound healing' as part of the RCSI Research Day 2026!

Louise Hosty presenting her research on developing a pro-angiogenic hyaluronic acid hydrogel decorated with vascular cell-derived extracellular matrix at RCSI Research Day 2026!