Science Foundation Ireland
Building Partnerships between Industry and Academia
Dr Phil Hemmingway– SFI Programme Manager
Phil Hemmingway | T: +353 1 607 3297 | E: Phil.Hemmingway@sfi.ie
SFI position on the Irish
landscape
Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation
Building Irish
Academic Base
Supporting Indigenous
Irish Companies
Supporting Multinational
Companies in Ireland
Top level SFI information
Founded in
2000
€160m
annual
investment
>€2.3bn
€1.6bn
Committed
Spend
and
to date
€2bn
>4,200
Awards
3,750
As of June 2015
Committed
to date in
with investments totalling
Awards
752 Live Awards
>€447m
SFI funding since establishment
SFI Budget was maintained
throughout times of austerity
What SFI does
Makes grants to
Higher Education
Institutes (HEIs) in
Ireland
Based on competitive,
international merit
review for scientific
excellence and
impact
Trains
people
Leverages
other research
funding e.g.
Industrial / EU /
Charitable/
Philanthropic/
International
Builds
infrastructure
Significant industrial
linkages
attracting,
anchoring and
starting
companies
Produces
scientific
results and
technology
✚ People and
technology
transfer to Industry
and Society
✚ Industry more
competitive,
better public services
✚ Higher value
products/services
✚ Higher living
standards
What SFI Researchers Deliver
A research engine of
2,851 people
including over 460
leading researchers
12
World leading SFI
Research Centres
spanning several
HEIs and industry
752
Active
Research
awards
Generated in 2014
2,029
€117m
scientific
papers
in leveraged
non-SFI funding
1200 collaborations
with industry
(650 MNCs, 561 SMEs)
18 license
agreements
31 patent
filings, 13
patents
awarded
1,843 international
collaborations in over
57 countries
Programmes for Industry
SFI Industry
Fellowship
SFI
Partnerships
Supports bi-directional movement of
industry and academic researchers
Supports collaborative research
projects of scale
SFI Research Centres
SFI Spokes
Supports large scale Research
Centres in areas of economic
importance
Supports recruitment of new
industry partners and collaborative
projects to Research Centres
SFI Industry Fellowship
• Up to €120k per Fellowship
 Salary, travel and subsistence of an academic researcher to
spend time in industry, anywhere in the world
 Travel and subsistence of industry personnel to spend time in
academia in Ireland
• Up to one year full time or two years part time
• Open to Irish and international companies
• No limit on the number of Fellows in any company
• No requirement for academic Fellow to return to the Research Body
• Two deadlines per year – June and December
Finding a Partner
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SFI Industry Fellowship Programme LinkedIn Group (>400 members)
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SFI Research Career Forum
https://www.b2match.eu/sficareerforum2014/participants
https://www.b2match.eu/sficareerforum2015/participants
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National Research Centre Directory
http://www.knowledgetransferireland.com/About_KTI/Find-a-Research-Provider/
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One-to-one meetings – later today
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Contact SFI
SFI Industry Fellowship
Who can apply?
• Academic partner submits application
• Must meet defined eligibility criteria
Proposal
• Aim, work plan, impact, career development prospects
• CVs
International Peer Review
• Quality of proposed fellow, work programme, potential for impact
including long term collaboration and career development
• http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/open-calls/sfi-industryfellowship-programme-2015.html
Industry Fellowship Awards
In 2013 & 2014 46 academic researchers and 38 companies partnered and
received Industry Fellowship
Academia
Alaunus Bioscience
Crystal Innovation
Codelco chile
SFI Research Centres
SFI Research
Centres
• World leading, large scale Centres
with major economic impact for
Ireland
• Funding of between €1m and
€5m per year in direct costs over
six years
• SFI funds up to 70%. Minimum
30% industry investment at least
one third of which must be cash
• 12 Centres funded, representing
€355m Exchequer funding and
€190m industry investment (>300
industry collaborations)
SFI Research
Centres Spokes
• Opportunity to become a
new Industry or Academic
Partner of a Centre
• Allows existing Centres to
grow and evolve
• Fixed call: competitive
assessment, 30% industry
cash contribution
• Rolling call: proposals
assessed on own merits,
50% industry cash
contribution
• No min or max award size,
projects of scale expected
SFI Research Centres: Structure
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Hub:
 Core operations
 Platform research
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Spokes:
 Targeted projects, each with
at least one industry partner
Imperatives
1.
Collaboration with industry & other
academics
2.
Harnessing strengths of different
experts in different HEIs (Virtual
centre)
SFI Research Centres - ICT
Centre
Focus
Director
Materials Science; nano- Prof. Stefano Sanvito
technology; bio-nano
(TCD)
Photonics systems –
communications & meddevices
Prof Paul Townsend
(Tyndall)
Big data; data analysis,
data management;
Connected Health
Mr. Oliver Daniels (NUIG)
Marine renewable
energy; materials; smart
grid
Prof. Conchúr Ó Brádaigh
(UCC)
SFI Research Centres - ICT
Centre
Focus
Director
Unlocking Ireland’s
natural resources –
energy, minerals, water
Prof John Walsh (UCD)
Software engineering &
development
Prof. Mike Hinchey (UL)
Future Networks and
Communications
Prof Linda Doyle (TCD)
Digital content and
media innovation
Prof Vinny Wade (TCD)
SFI Research Centres Lifesciences
Centre
Focus
Director
Food for health;
pharamabiotics
Prof. Fergus Shanahan (UCC)
Perinatal health
Profs. Louise Kenny & Geraldine
Boylan (UCC)
Pharmaceutical
production chain:
synthesis, isolation and
formulation
Prof. Kieran Hodnett (UL)
Medical Devices:
biomedical implants,
cell-device and drugdevice combination
products
Prof. Abhay Pandit (NUIG)
SFI Partnerships
• Flexible mechanism to support ambitious research projects of scale
between industry and academia
• SFI matches the investment by industry
• Two strands:
• Competitive Joint Funding Partnership Programme
• Strategic Partnerships
http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/open-calls/sfi-partnerships.html
Competitive Joint
Funding Partnership
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What?
 Company partners with SFI to launch a new competitive funding programme
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Why?
 Solicit ideas from the research community addressing industry challenges
 Develop new industry-academic collaborations
 Opportunity to leverage state funding to de-risk early stage research
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How?
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Joint design of funding programme to meet needs of company and SFI
SFI administers programme
Fast track review
Opportunity for industry partner to engage in review of proposals
Joint decision-making process
Joint funding of successful applications
Strategic Partnership
Programme
Key aim:
 To foster and develop strategic partnerships
 Initiatives of scale with strong potential for delivering economic impact to
Ireland
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Application prepared jointly by academic researcher and company, submitted
by academic partner
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Non-competitive rolling call – can apply anytime
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50% cash co-funding requirement
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Two stage application process
 Expression of interest
 Full proposal (by invitation only)
Programmes for Industry
SFI Industry
Fellowship
SFI
Partnerships
Supports bi-directional movement of
industry and academic researchers
Supports collaborative research
projects of scale
SFI Research Centres
SFI Spokes
Supports large scale Research
Centres in areas of economic
importance
Supports recruitment of new
industry partners and collaborative
projects to Research Centres
One-to-One Meetings….
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Industry Fellowship speed-dating…..
– Opportunity to meet potential candidates who could apply to take up a
Fellowship at your company
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Meetings have not been pre-screened by SFI – open booking system
– Assume some will have a good knowledge of the IF Programme, and some
may have little
– Assume some will know what they want to achieve from the meeting, and
some won’t
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Starts at 2 o’clock - everyone should have a ‘meeting agenda’
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Reminder: Industry Fellowship Deadlines – June and December every year
Thank you for your interest
Phil Hemmingway, BE PhD CEng MIEI
Programme Manager
Programmes Directorate
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Wilton Park House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2
T: +353 1 607 3297 | F: +353 1 607 3201 | E: Phil.Hemmingway@sfi.ie | W: www.sfi.ie
Science Foundation Ireland – Research for Ireland’s Future
SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES
Intellectual Property
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National IP Framework
 Putting public research to work for Ireland Document
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Ensure a streamlined and transparent process by which industry interacts with RPO’s
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Balance the needs of industry and the State
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RPO ownership of research that is partly or fully funded by the state
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Industry partner can negotiate preferential access to IP subject to a minimum cash
commitment
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Industry partner owns IP in contract research undertakings
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Ownership of background IP protected
Irish Research Landscape
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
• 7 Universities
• 14 Institutes of Technology
12 SFI-sponsored Research Centres
 Academia-led (industry partners)
 Across multiple HEIs
 TRL 1-7
> 15 EI-sponsored Technology Centres
 Industry-led
 Some co-located with HEIs
 TRL 5-9
Centre Title
Director
Professor John J. Walsh
Lead Institution
University College Dublin
Research Programme
Description
The Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) brings together a team of
internationally leading researchers representing the full geosciences spectrum with a clear
focus on the wider economic impact of the geosciences sector in Ireland.
iCRAG’s research programme comprises four cohesive topics or ‘spokes’ in the areas of
raw materials, marine, groundwater and hydrocarbons, which are built around four enabling
technology and equipment based ’platforms’ which focus on geophysical sensing and imaging,
geochemistry, 3D geological modelling and public perception and understanding.
iCRAG’s research focusses on finding solutions for problems such as:
• safe and secure groundwater supplies
• the discovery of mineral and aggregate deposits
• de-risking of oil and gas exploration.
Academic Partners
Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, NUI Maynooth and Dublin Institute for
Advanced Studies.
Budget & Research Team Size
€30.1m (€19.4m SFI + €10.7m Industry)
Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Raw Materials and Groundwater
Marine and Hydrocarbons
Boliden
Geoscience Ireland
PIPCO
International Lithium Corporation
AGEC
Atlantic Petroleum
Lundin
APEX
Cairn Energy
Teck Ireland
AWN Consulting
Chevron
Trevali Mining Corp.
BRG
ENI
SRK Consulting
Byrne Looby Partners
Europa Oil and Gas
Eurostone
Coastway
ExxonMobil
Homebond
F.L.I. Group
Husky Energy
David Ball Associates
GDG
Kosmos Energy
Geoserv
IGSL
Maersk Oil
NRA (National Roads Authority)
Irish Drilling
Providence Resources
Tobin Consulting Engineers
J.B. Barry & Partners
Repsol Exploration
PIPCO
Meehan Drilling
San Leon Energy
Nicholas O’Dwyer
Serica Energy
Priority Drilling
Shell
Priority Geotechnical
Sosina
Sorhill Advocates Pty
QME
Tullow Oil
Verde Environmental Group
SLR
Woodside Energy
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Contact Details
Name: Prof. John J. Walsh
Telephone: +353(1)7162169
Email: john@fag.ucd.ie
Web: icrag‐centre.org
Prof. Balz Kamber
Prof. Chris Bean
Prof. Peter Croot
Prof. Laurence Gill
Prof. Peter Haughton
Prof. Frank McDermott
Prof. Pat Shannon
Prof. Andy Wheeler
TCD
DIAS
NUIG
TCD
UCD
UCD
UCD
UCC
Centre Title
Director
Prof. Mike Hinchey
Lead Institution
University of Limerick
Research Programme
Description
Lero’s research programme is informed by three long-term trends: software is everywhere and our
quality of life and economic well-being depend on it; the digital and physical worlds are increasingly
integrated; and software-intensive systems must be always-on, yet continuously changing. These
trends are significantly impacting key Irish industry sectors, such as manufacturing, medical devices,
financial services, cloud computing, analytics, and smart cities. Hence, Lero’s research mission is to
replicate the success of traditional software engineering in the context of large-scale, pervasive,
physically-integrated, highly interconnected, evolving, and continuously-available systems, in which the
boundary between design-time and runtime is disappearing. Lero’s research focuses on the tools,
methods and best practices required to maintain software development leadership in this climate of
accelerating change.
Academic Partners
Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, NUI Galway, Trinity
College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin
Budget & Research Team Size
€41 Million (24.7m SFI 16.3m industry)
Large: 197
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
ACI Worldwide
FTL Group
Aerogen
Hewlett Packard
Allstate Insurance (NI)
IBM
Almir Business
Information Mosaic
Bluebridge Technologies
Microsoft
dabl
Ocuco
Dell
Portable Medical Technology
DMF Systems
S3 Group
Drop Technology
SQS
Ericsson
United Technologies Research Centre
Fijowave
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Contact Details
Name: Brendan O’Malley
Telephone: + 353 (0)61 202484
Email: brendan.omalley@lero.ie
Web: www.lero.ie
Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, Chief Scientist (UL)
Prof. Liam Bannon (UL)
Prof. Mathew Hennessy (TCD)
Prof. Tiziana Margaria (UL)
Prof. Joao Marques-Silva (UCD)
Prof. John Murphy (UCD)
Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh (UL)
Prof. Gregory Provan (UCC)
Centre Title
Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM)
Director
Prof. Abhay Pandit
Lead Institution
National University of Ireland,
Galway
Research Programme
Description
The objective for CÚRAM is to radically improve health outcomes for patients by developing innovative
implantable medical devices. Devices will be developed with strong clinical collaborations, with
industry partners and hospital groups, to enable rapid translation to the clinic.
CÚRAM will design and create implantable ‘smart’ medical devices. Implants will be designed and
manufactured to respond to the body’s environment and to deliver therapeutic agents, such as drugs,
exactly where needed. CÚRAM’s outputs will particularly benefit patients with chronic diseases such as
heart disease, diabetes and musculoskeletal diseases.
Research areas include:
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Budget & Research Team Size
Combinational and advanced delivery devices
Enhancement of current implants and devices
Design of devices
Characterisation of implants and devices
Clinical translation of selected CÚRAM technologies
University College Dublin, University College Cork, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin,
University of Limerick, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
€41.3m (€28.8m SFI + €12.5m Industry)
Large: 200+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
38 Industry Partners (30 SMEs and 8 MNCs) including the following:
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. David Brayden
• Prof. Lokesh Joshi
• Prof. Tim O’Brien
Contact Details
Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
UCD
NUI Galway
NUI Galway
Prof. Abhay Pandit
+353 (0)91 492758
abhay.pandit@nuigalway.ie
http://www.devices.ie
Centre Title
CONNECT
Director
Linda Doyle
Lead Institution
Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme
Description
The CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications will solve multi-faceted scientific and
engineering challenges relating to the design of flexible and responsive future communications
networks. We envisage networks of the future as systems of highly heterogeneous connections
between sensors, mobile devices, access points and smart nodes, which are performed into existence
in response to a service need, creating the ultimate service-aware network. Central to our vision is the
idea of open communications: we will design network infrastructure that is shared by unlimited virtual
operators supporting specialised services.
This infrastructure will be able to seamlessly handle everything from light-weight IoT services, to
media-rich applications, to mobile services. We will take a system-wide, end-to-end view, considering
challenges from the service, the network and the underlying physical perspectives. We will create a
virtualized and programmable network substrate, in which distributed software services directly
configure networking functionality to meet their needs. We will push resource sharing to the extreme,
throughout the network. We will design smart sensors, sophisticated processing-intensive intelligent
nodes and complex infrastructural elements that are responsive to the service and network needs. Our
vision will be exemplified via a range of targeted projects co-designed with our extensive team of
industry partners.
Academic Partners
Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin City University (DCU), National
University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), University College Dublin (UCD), Telecommunications Software
& Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), University College Cork (UCC),
Tyndall National Institute (Tyndall) & University of Limerick (UL)
Budget & Research Team Size
€52.5m (€23.8m SFI & €28.7m Industry & Cash)
Large: 177
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Prof. Max Ammann (DIT)
Prof. Luiz Da Silva (TCD)
Prof. Michael Peter Kennedy (UCC)
Prof. Cian O’ Mathúna (Tyndall)
Prof. Cormac J. Sreenan (UCC)
Prof. Tom Brazil (UCD)
Dr. Willie Donnelly (TSSG)
Prof. Doug Leith (TCD)
Prof. Dave Payne (TCD)
Catherine Keogh
+353 (0)1-896-8441
keoghc4@tcd.ie
www.connectcentre.ie
www.ctvr.ie
Centre Title
ADAPT
Director
Professor Vincent Wade
Lead Institution
Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme
Description
We live in a world of global digital connectivity where enterprises, communities and individuals are
sharing information and content and communicating globally at incredible speed, in enormous
volumes, across the world’s languages and over an ever-increasing number of devices.
The ADAPT Centre empowers people, companies and communities to achieve unprecedented
engagement across digital content and multimodal interaction. ADAPT empowers people and
communities by enabling: deeper understanding of multilingual content by significant advances in
multilingual language processing; dynamic transformation of content to break down language and
cultural barriers; personalisation of the user experience to ensure rapid assimilation and reuse of
content; and multimodal/multimedia interaction with global content for contextualised discovery,
communication and interaction.
ADAPT innovations can help businesses to analyse, personalise and deliver digital content more
effectively to drive business in the digital age. ADAPT research is fundamentally changing the way in
which enterprises, communities and individuals can engage globally in real time. ADAPT enhances
efficiencies and global reach for industry partners in key priority sectors for Ireland, including ICT,
localisation, financial services, eCommerce, media, entertainment and games, life sciences, digital
culture and humanities, and eLearning/eEducation.
Academic Partners
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€49.9m (€23.8 SFI + €26.1m Industry).
Large : 127
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Acrolin
Moravia
AOL
ovartis
C SCO
DRC
Commetric
ay al
eBay
Sa an
BD
Symantec
Huawei
istaT C
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elocali e
ntel
anadu
Microsoft
celerator
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal
Investigators
Contact Details
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Prof. Andy Way
Prof. Nick Campbell
Prof. Qun Liu
Dr. Gareth Jones
Prof. Owen Conlan
rof. Declan O’Sullivan
Prof. David Lewis
Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Vincent Wade
+353 1 8961765
vincent.wade@adaptcentre.ie
www.adaptcentre.ie
www.sfi.ie
Centre Title
Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research (AMBER)
Director (Interim)
Prof. Stefano Sanvito
Lead Institution
Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme
Description
The Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research (AMBER) Centre delivers internationallyleading materials research which is industrially and clinically informed. The research is translated to
have direct impact on devices and products in the ICT, Medical Devices and Industrial Technology
sectors.
Research activities include:
• improving our understanding of existing materials
• exploring novel ways to deposit, pattern, structure and package these materials and translate
their benefits to deliver products to the ICT and medical device sectors
• innovative materials research for applications such as filtration, packaging, memory and drug
delivery
The centre comprises of a team of leading international researchers from areas such as
nanoscience, material science, physics, chemistry, medicine, immunology, pharmacology and
bioengineering.
Academic Partners
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, University College Cork
Budget & Research Team Size
€50.5m (€27.3m SFI + €23.2m Industry)
Large: 100+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Name:
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Email:
Web:
Prof. Michael Coey
TCD
Prof. Jonathan Coleman TCD
Prof. Georg Duesberg TCD
Prof. Michael Morris
UCC
Prof. Justin Holmes
UCC
Prof. Daniel Kelly
TCD
Prof. ergal O’Brien
RCS
Prof. Valeria Nicolosi TCD
Prof. John Boland
TCD
Prof. Stefano Sanvito
+353-(0)1-896-3065
stefano.sanvito@tcd.ie
http://www.ambercentre.ie/
Centre Title
Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC)
Director
Professor Fergus Shanahan
Lead Institution
University College Cork
Research Programme
Description
The overall focus of APC is to investigate the role of the gut microbiotia in human health and disease.
The APC focuses on the following thematic areas:
1. Mining the gut microbiota for novel bioactives, including bacteriocins, probiotics, prebiotics and
bacteriophages
2. The role of the gut microbiota at the extremes of life; determining the mechanistic links between
diet, microbiota composition and health status in infants, elderly, athletes etc
3. The role of the gut microbiota in the brain-gut axis; examining the relationship between the gut
microbiota and brain function e.g. stress, cognitive function, IBS
4. The role of the GI microbiota in host-microbe dialogue; identify mechanisms used by microbiota to
regulate the host immune system & gut epithelium homeostasis and investigate intestinal
inflammation
Academic Partners
Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre
Cork Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€42.6m (€27.9m SFI + €14.7m Industry)
Large: 150
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
13 Companies from the Food, Biotech, Diagnostics and Pharma sectors
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Gerald Fitzgerald
UCC
• Prof. Paul Ross
UCC
• Dr. Catherine Stanton
Teagasc
• Prof. Colin Hill
UCC
• Prof. Ted Dinan
UCC
• Prof. John Cryan
UCC
• Dr. aul O’Toole
UCC
• Prof. Douwe van Sinderen UCC
Contact Details
Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Professor Fergus Shanahan
+353 (0)21 4901226
f.shanahan@ucc.ie
http://apc.ucc.ie/
Centre Title
Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT)
Director
Prof. Louise Kenny, Prof. Geraldine Boylan
Lead Institution
University College Cork
Research Programme
Description
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Biomarkers for screening and diagnostics in pregnancy
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Innovative cot-side monitoring
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Perinatal clinical trials centre
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The INFANT Biobank: Investing in our future
Predict to Prevent: Creating safer pregnancies for lifelong health
Innovative cot-side monitoring
Neonatal risk prediction
Protecting the pre-term brain
Perinatal clinical trials: INFANT as a global hub for data and biobanking
Infant and maternal nutrition
Connected Health: Mobilising perinatal healthcare to the community and the home
Academic Partners
Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
Budget & Research Team Size
€11.9m (€5.9m SFI + €6.0m Industry)
Medium: 11 – 49
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Industry Partners
Waters Corporation
IBM
Incereb
Inspiration Healthcare
Kvikna
Nihon Kohden
BrepCo Pharmaceutical
Alere
MedSci Net
Newsweaver
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Prof. Eugene Dempsey UCC
Prof. David Henshall RCSI
Dr. Liam Marnane
UCC
Dr. Deirdre Murray
UCC
Dr. Gordon Lightbody UCC
Prof. Frederic Adams UCC
Dr. Mairead Kiely
UCC
Prof. Louise Kenny
+353 (0)21 420 5023
infant@ucc.ie
http://www.infantcentre.ie/
Centre Title
Insight
Director
Mr. Oliver Daniels
Lead Institution(s)
University College Dublin
University College Cork
Dublin City University
National University of Ireland,
Galway.
Research Programme
Description
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Big Data Analytics
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Capture, organise, and crucially understand, this torrent of data that is the basis for competition
and growth within the global economy.
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Apply Big Data techniques in the areas of:
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Connected Health
The Discovery Economy
Insight brings together five major Irish research centres: CLARITY, DERI, Clique, 4C and TRIL
Academic Partners
Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Tyndall Institute, Royal Irish
Academy.
Budget & Research Team Size
€75.1m (€44.4m SFI + €30.7m Industry)
Large: 100+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Abtran Ltd.
Microsoft
Adoreboard
Nitrosell
Avego
RTE
Cisco
Rubicoin
Citibank
Shimmer Research
Eagle Alpha
Starwood
Elsevier
Stryker
Flashpoint
Treemetrics
IRFU
UTRC
Irish Times
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
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Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Prof. Barry Smyth
Prof. Alan Smeaton
Prof. Brian Caulfield
Prof. Padraig Cunningham
Prof. Stefan Decker
Prof. Barry O'Sullivan
UCD
DCU
UCD
UCD
NUIG
UCC
Mr. Oliver Daniels (CEO)
+353-(0)91-495-009
Oliver.daniels@insight-centre.org
http://www.insight-centre.org/
Mr. Mike Turley (COO)
+353-(0)91-495-010
michael.turley@insight-centre.org
http://www.insight-centre.org/
Centre Title
Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC)
Director
Prof Paul Townsend
Lead Institution
Tyndall National Institute, UCC
Research Programme
Description
The Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC) brings together over 100 researchers from four institutes
to develop new light-enabled technologies.
Targeting the ICT and medical devices sectors, IPIC is working with 18 industry partners to develop
the next generation of highly-compact and miniaturised photonics devices. The Centre’s work is
focused on:
• Enabling continued growth of the internet through faster more energy efficient devices for
information transport, storage and display.
• Delivering smart medical devices for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease through the
integration of photonics onto surgical instruments and into compact high sensitivity analysis
equipment.
• Developing systems for food and environment monitoring.
Academic Partners
University College Cork, Dublin City University, Cork Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€24.5m (€16.2m SFI + €8.3m Industry)
Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Intel
Lake Region
British Telecom
Somex
M/A-COM
InfiniLED
Finisar
Radisens Diagonstics
Firecomms
Luxcel Biosciences
X-Celeprint
Eblana
Pilot Photonics
Stryker
Seagate
Epi-light
Huawei
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Prof. Liam Barry
DCU
Dr. Frank Peters
Tyndall
Dr. Emanuele Pelucchi Tyndall
Brian Corbett
Tyndall
Dr. Guillaume Huyet
Tyndall
Dr. eter O’ Brien
Tyndall
Prof. Eoin .O’Reilly
Tyndall
Prof. Colette McDonagh DCU
Prof. Dmitri Papkovsky UCC
Prof. Paul Townsend
+353-(0)21-490 4857
paul.townsend@tyndall.ie
http://www.ipic.ie/
Centre Title
Director
Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI)
rofessor Conchúr Ó’Brádaigh
Lead Institution
University College Cork
Research Programme
Description
The Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre will develop the science required by industry
to generate energy from wave, tidal and floating wind devices. Societal impact will include a route to
achieving binding renewable energy targets for Ireland and an approach to maximising the value and
security of reland’s national renewable energy portfolio.
MaREI will carry out 22 fundamental science projects and a further 51 joint industry projects related
to a wide range of challenges including:
• Operations, maintenance and reliability of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices.
• Enabling large-scale deployment of MRE devices.
• Connection of MRE devices to the national grid.
• Novel methods for storing the energy generated by MRE devices.
• Related marine governance, planning, economics and environmental issues.
MaREI will be shared between third-level institutions in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and
Maynooth, in collaboration with more than 40 industry partners.
Academic Partners
University College Cork (UCC), University of Limerick (UL), NUIG Galway (NUIG), NUI Maynooth
(NUIM), University College Dublin (UCD), Cork Institute of Technology (CIT)
Budget & Research Team Size
€25m (€14.7m SFI + €10.3m Industry)
Large: 50+
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Industry Partners
AQUAFACT
Automsoft
Global Renewable Solutions Ltd. Shell E&P Ireland Ltd.
IDS Monitoring Ltd.
SkySails GmbH.
Brí Toinne Teoranta
Marine Harvest
SonarSIM
B9 Energy
Commissioners of Irish Lights
DePuy
Marsh Technology Ltd.
McCormacks of Ardagh
MYMIC LLC.
SSE Renewables
Technology From Ideas (tfi)
TechWorks Marine
DP Energy Ireland Ltd.
Ecoventi
Pure Marine Gen.
REALSIM Ltd.
Teledyne BlueView Inc.
Teledyne RESON Inc.
Enerco Energy Ltd.
Resilience Energy Ltd.
WECCA
ESBI
Shannon Foynes Port Company
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Prof. Tony Lewis
Prof. Frederic Dias
Dr. Michael Hartnett
Dr. Gordon Lightbody
Dr. Jerry Murphy
Dr. Eamon McKeogh
Prof. John Ringwood
Dr. Daniel Toal
UCC
UCD
NUIG
UCC
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NUIM
UL
Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh
+353-(0)21-4250022/4250021
conchur.obradaigh@ucc.ie
http://www.marei.ie/
Centre Title
Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC)
Director
Prof. Kieran Hodnett
Lead Institution
University of Limerick
Research Programme
Description
The Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC) will carry out research spanning the
entire pharmaceutical chain, ranging from molecules to medicines, with the overarching objective to
better understand mechanisms, control processes and predict outcomes for the efficient and
environmentally sustainable production of safe medicines.
The Centre will focus on three key areas:
• New Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Synthesis
• Crystal Growth and Design
• Drug Product Formulation and Manufacture
Academic Partners
University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of
Ireland Galway, Dublin City University, Athlone Institute of Technology, Waterford Institute of
Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€31.8m (€22.0m SFI + €9.8m Industry)
Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Pfizer
GlaxoSmithKline
Eli Lilly SA
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Merck Sharpe & Dohme
Bristol Myers Squibb
Roche Ireland
Alkermes
Abbvie
UCB (Schwarz Pharma)
APC Limited
Scale-Up Systems
Clarochem Ireland
Innopharma Labs
Eirgen Pharma Ltd
Glantreo
Amebis
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Prof. Martin Albrecht UCD
Prof. Stephen Connon TCD
Prof. Alan Dobson
UCC
Prof. Brian Glennon UCD
Prof. Pat Guiry
UCD
Dr. Anne Marie Healy TCD
Prof. Anita R. Maguire UCC
Prof. Åke Rasmuson UL
Prof. Gavin Walker
UL
Prof. Kieran Hodnett
+353-(0)61-202-246
kieran.hodnett@ul.ie
http://www.ul.ie/sspc/