MMI Online Newsletter

The MMI Newsletter features updates on all areas of MMI activity and is a forum for the clinical and translational research community in Ireland. The MMI Newsletter also contains listings of forthcoming events (seminars, meetings, courses and workshops). The MMI Newsletter is distributed by email to various contacts and to over 2000 MMI website users who subscribe to the Newsletter.

ISSUE 4 - FEBRUARY 2010

IN THIS ISSUE:

Appointment of Dr Marina Zvartau-Hind as a Director of MMI   |  MMI Technology Platform Web-Portal is now live  |  Molecular Medicine Ireland - Review of 2009 and Forward Look  |  MMI welcomes Government's Plan for Health Research  |  Record attendance at MMI Techniques & Strategies in Molecular Medicine course  |  ICRIN pilots Research Readiness Programme  |  MMI Guidelines for Standardised Biobanking - Consultation Phase  |  Pilot Common Ethics Form now available  |  Molecules to Medicines course and workshop gives insight into biopharmaceutical industry  |  MMI Clinician Scientist Fellow involved in ground-breaking breast cancer research  |  MMI Course - Human Disease Genomics: SNPs, GWAS and Next-Gen Sequencing  |  Irish involvement in BBMRI, one of the ESFRI Biomedical Sciences Infrastructures  |  

PLUS:

News In Brief:
High demand for GCP training in 2010  |  DCCR hosts networking event with Biomedical Diagnostics Institute  |  MMI/ICRIN hosts workshop on clinical studies for medical devices   |  Certificate in Nursing (Clinical Research) 2010/2011  |  Patient leading vision research honoured by Trinity College Dublin  |  Visit to the TCD 3D Visualisation Suite for MMI Course Attendees  |  CSTAR - Centre for support and training in analysis and research  |  

Upcoming Events:
The Charles Institute Public Lecture: UV Radiation & the Skin - The Science & Risks  |  UCD Conway Institute Guest Seminar: Fc gamma receptors in Allergy  |  Irish Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 3-5 March 2010  |  UCD Graduate course: Molecular Neuroimmunology  |  2010 TERMIS-EU Conference on 13-17 June 2010  |  MMI Course - Human Disease Genomics: SNPs, GWAS and Next-Gen Sequencing  |  

 

ISSUE 3 - OCTOBER 2009

IN THIS ISSUE:

First MMI Clinician Scientist Fellowship Programme Annual Meeting held at NUI Galway  |  MMI course - Techniques & Strategies in Molecular Medicine: Online application invited  |  Marie Mellody appointed as ICRIN Coordinator  |  MMI Guidelines for Standardised Biobanking  |  Industry and academia come together to deliver MMI Drug Design & Delivery course  |  RCSI Certificate Course in Research Nursing Launched in Newman House  |  MMI and CAMI workshop highlights applications of MRI in research  |  MMI mapping Research Technology Platforms  |  MMI / HRB CRF Galway Workshop in Biostatistics   |  UK CRF Network Road Show Comes to Ireland  |  Minister Lenihan Opens Irelands First Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Laboratory at TCDs Institute of Molecular Medicine  |  

PLUS:

News In Brief:
MMI Clinician Scientist Fellowship Programme External Review Recommendations  |  Molecular Medicine Ireland publishes its first Annual Report  |  The Translational Health Research Conference, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork  |  ECRIN Newsletter August 2009  |  Certificate in Nursing (Clinical Research) course - Stand-alone modules  |  

Upcoming Events:
Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) - 12th Annual Meeting   |   British Medical Ultrasound Society: Pre-clinical ultrasound study day  |  IPPOSI National Strategic Forum for Clinical Research   |  MMI Course: MOLECULES TO MEDICINES - HOW BIOPHARMA DELIVERS  |  MMI/Wyeth Workshop - MOLECULES TO MEDICINES - How Biopharma Delivers  |  MMI Course: TECHNIQUES & STRATEGIES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE  |  Irish Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 3-5 March 2010  |  

 

ISSUE 2 - MAY 2009

IN THIS ISSUE:

MMI Clinician Scientist Fellowships awarded in UCC  |  Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications in Research Workshop - MMI invites expressions of interest  |  New Report published by ICRIN: Clinical Research - Irish Situation Analysis   |  ICRIN with the State Claims Agency host Clinical Research Insurance and Indemnity Workshop  |  Second in series of ICRIN GCP courses held in April   |  MMI Workshop: Biostatistics  |  MMI mapping Research Technology Platforms  |  GeneLibrary Ireland Stakeholder Seminar  |  Collaborative Clinical Research Underway at the Dublin Centre for Clinical Research  |  

PLUS:

News In Brief:
MMI with QUB and UU submit report on design phase of GeneLibrary Ireland  |  MMI CSFP Annual Meeting to be held on 11 July 2009  |  New Appointment to ICRIN  |  Seminar to discuss Common Ethics Application Form for Investigator Led multisite Studies  |  Report of the Expert Group on a National Cancer Biobank  |  First MMI Clinician Scientist Fellowship Programme Annual Meeting held at NUI Galway  |  

Upcoming Events:
Postgraduates Careers Event  |  ICRIN GCP Training Course  |  49th Graves Lecture - 20th May 2009  |  IDSI 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting June 11-12   |  4th UK and Ireland Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics at QUB: 22-23 June 2009   |  Entrepreneurship - How to create a technology start-up  |  Ethics Lectures in TCD: 25 & 26 May 2009  |  

 

ISSUE 1 - JANUARY 2009

IN THIS ISSUE:

New Chair of Molecular Medicine Ireland Board  |  MMI cited in first report on the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (SSTI)  |  GCP Training to be Hosted by RCSI Clinical Research Centre  |  Dublin Centre for Clinical Research - Clinical Informatics Manager  |  GeneLibrary Ireland  |  MMI Clinician Scientist Fellowship Programme  |  MMI Courses & Workshops  |  Irish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network  |  MMI profiled in HEA publication "Transformations - How Research is changing Ireland"  |  

PLUS:

News In Brief:
Inaugural Clinical Research Nurses Day  |  Molecules to Medicines: Read a report of MMI/Wyeth course  |  2009 NCI Summer Curriculum Call for Applications Now Open  |  Sixth run of MMI course "Techniques and Strategies in Molecular Medicine" in December 2008  |  

Upcoming Events:
All-Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care - Information Briefing on 28 January 2009  |  ICRIN GCP Training Course  |  Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Symposium: Interrogating Disease and Development  |  Cellular Imaging & Analysis conference, 7-8 February 2009  |  UCD Conway Institute Postgraduate Course - MMI invites applications across institutions  |  UCD Conway postgraduate course: "Communication Skills for Biological Scientists"  |  

 

 

Prior to the creation of MMI , the Dublin Molecular Medicnie Ireland (DMMC) produced a regular newsletter. Archive issues can be accessed below

Download previous issues of
DMMC News here:

July 2007
With articles on: Building a Dedicated Clinical & Translational Research Network; DMMC International Workshops: Epigenetics Leads the Way; Research Update: Study of Common Disorders goes Genome-Wide; Accreditation of Postgraduate Education; Technology Update: UCD Conway Institute Mass Spectrometry Resource; Cerviva - The Irish Cervical Screening Research Consortium; EMBO Practical Course: Tissue Microarrays & Image Analysis; Ruth Barrington appointed as CEO to DMMC; ICRIN Coordinator.

March 2007
With articles on: ACSTI Report:Recommendations on Health Research in Ireland; Moving On - Pierre Meulien; DMMC Courses & Workshop: A Flexible Post- graduate Education Resource; Technology Update: Digital Slide Scanning & Tissue Microarrays at the UCD Conway Institute; Irish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network Launch; Research Update. APOCOLON: Enhancing Sensitivity of Colon Cancer Cells to Apoptosis; The Innovative Medicines Initiative; New DMMC Board Member; Forthcoming DMMC Courses; DMMC International Workshop.

November 2006
With articles on: The Importance of Research in the Healthcare Sector; Irish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network; 6th Annual UCD Conway Festival of Research; Research Update: Molecular Design Group - Accelerate Your Drug Discovery Process; HRB/DMMC Workshop: Clinical Research Training in Ireland; Technology Update: Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Facility at RCSI; DMMC Science Day 2006; Symposium: Biomarkers in Drug Development.

July 2006
With articles on: Opportunities for Ireland in the Higher Education Sector; Dublin Medical Schools Collaborate to Secure Major Grant for Clinical Research; IACR/ISMO Meeting 2006; Research Update: Applied Neurotherapeutics Research Group, A Year of Discovery; HRB Conference: ‘Today’s Health Research is Tomorrow’s Health Care’; Technology Update: High Content Cell Analysis in Irish Academic Biomedical Research & Education; EMBO Molecular Medicine Conference: ‘Common Mechanisms of Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer Progression’.

March 2006
With articles on: Translational Research - A Funder’s View; HRB & DMMC Irish Translational Workshop; The UCD Veterinary Hospital; Clinical Trials Symposium; Irish Cervical Screening Research Consortium; National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training; Research Update: Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Xenophobia in the Gut?; DMMC Education & Training Update; Emerging Clinical Research Infrastructures.

November 2005
With articles on: Transforming Translational Research in Ireland; The General Clinical Research Unit at the Mater Hospital; UCD Conway Institute Festival of Research; New Trans-Institutional Collaborations; Research Update: Development of Protease-Resistant IGFBP4 as Therapy for Breast Cancer; A New Year of DMMC Education & Training; Collaborative Biobanking & Translational Research; UCD Conway Institute at the BA Festival of Science.

June 2005
With articles on: Delivering on the Promise of Molecular Medicine; New DMMC agreement adds RCSI as equal partner; DMMC Research Consortia in Breast and Colorectal Cancers; Science Hands-On Workshops; Cancer 2005 & Irish Association for Cancer Research Meetings; DMMC Translational Workshop: Immunity & Lung Disease; Research Update on Oesophageal Cancer; Communicating DMMC Activities; DMMC Courses & Workshops.

February 2005
With articles on: The Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and the DMMC, a Strategy for Translational Research; St Vincent's University Hospital Research Symposium; World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics; Metabolomics in Nutrition Workshop; Visit to Harvard Medical School - Partners Healthcare Centre for Genetics & Genomics, Boston; ProteinChip Facility at the Conway Institute; IMM Annual Meeting; Collaborative Research into Hepatitis C; ScienceWorks, Conway Institute; Recent and upcoming DMMC Courses; Applications invited for 4-year PhD at TCD; IBS Website.

November 2004
With articles on: The DMMC, Past and Future Perspective; DMMC Education & Training 2004/2005; Bioinformatics Training Across the DMMC; Introductory Bioinformatics Workshop at the IMM; Research Update on Molecular Mechanisms of Integrin Activation; Report on the 4th Conway Institute Festival of Research; Imaging: Multi-Colour Kinetics of Life at Molecular Level; Trinity Biobank at the Institute of Molecular Medicine; Conway Institute Molecular Neuroimmunology Early Training Programme; DMMC Intellectual Property Agreement; New Facilities at Mater Misericordiae Hospital.

August 2004
With articles on: DMMC Spring Symposium; Research Update from the Conway Institute Diabetic Nephropathy Research Group; Irish Autism Genetics Collaboration; SFI Cancer Workshop; Beaumont Hospital Clinical Research Centre; Conway Institute Proteome Research Centre Opening; 4 Year PhD Programmes at Trinity College Dublin; Collaborations with Institut Pasteur; Legal Agreements; DMMC Scientific Advisory Committee.

April 2004
With articles on: Proteomics in Dublin; the DMMC Strategic Plan; Synaesthesia Research; DMMC and Institut Pasteur Meeting; Education and Training; Focus Group Meetings; Nutrigenomics; DMMC Website Research Database launch; Cancer 2004 Meeting report.