This edition's Researcher in Focus is Carmel McKenna, Principal and Creative
Programme Director (Health and Wellbeing) at Munster Academy of Irish Dance. Carmel specialises in adaptive Irish céilí dance programmes, co-developed with and for people living with dementia, and took some time
News
There are two vacancies for the new study EMERALD-Lewy: Improving the diagnosis, management, and lived experience of overlooked dementias in Ireland.
EMERALD-Lewy is funded by Health Research Board (HRB) under the Applied Programme Grants (APRO) 2023, awarded to Principal Investigator Prof. Iracema Leroi, TCD. The research programme is currently looking to fill two posts:
This edition's Researcher in Focus is Dr Nengwei Hu, Assistant Professor in Pharmacology & Therapeutics in Trinity College Dublin. Nengwei took time out of his busy schedule to speak to us about his research and his work.
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The HRB have announced that they are participating in two calls under JPND related to neurodegeneration. The two calls are now open for applications, and are as follows:
Call Title: JPND Joint Transnational Working Group Call (2023) “Use of digital technologies in neurodegenerative disease research and clinical practice”
The Researcher in Focus for this DRNI CONNECT edition is Colm Lannon-Boran, Associate Faculty Lecturer & PhD Candidate, National College of Ireland and Maynooth University, who spoke to us about his work and about his research.
October 10th 2023 saw DRNI host an Early Career Researcher Day in St James's Hospital, Dublin. Attended by ECRs from all across the island of Ireland, the event saw both oral and poster presentations from all areas of research in dementia.
The Researcher in Focus of this edition of DRNI CONNECT is
Dr Sarah Nicolas, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department
of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork.
Sarah took time out of her busy schedule to speak to us and
tell us about her research.
DRNI EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER DAY
10 OCTOBER, ST JAMES’S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN
Are you an Early Career Researcher in the area of dementia? Do you want to present your research to peers and experts?
Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI) are delighted to host and Early Career Researcher Day. This in-person event will give ECRs the opportunity to present their research, meet other researcher and learn more about the funding landscape.
This edition of DRNI's Researcher in Focus is Dr Andrea Kwakowsky, neuroscientist
at the School of Medicine at the University of Galway.