Huge congratulations to Shan An who passed her PhD viva today!! 🥳 Shan's PhD focused on the development of gene-activated hydrogels for therapeutic delivery to enhance cartilage repair. Thank you so much to examiners Prof. Martin Stoddart, PhD and Caroline Curtin!

We were delighted to have Dr Huan Wang from the Mayo Clinic join us today in TERG to give a seminar on her work to date on peripheral nerve injury repair!

'A 3D Tissue-Engineering Model of Craniosynostosis to Study the Microenvironmental Signals Leading to Premature Suture Ossification' is now published in Bioengineering! This article is the result of a fruitful partnership with the Children’s Health Foundation Temple Street

Congratulations to Head of TERG @fjobrien.bsky.social who was invited to give the prestigious Royal Academy of Medicine Ireland Graves Lecture yesterday, talking about his experience with 'Advanced Biomaterials for Repairing Damaged Tissues and Organs: From Concept to Clinic'! @rcsi.bsky.social

So proud of all our wonderful PhD graduates today! 🥳🥳 @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social

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/10.1002/... @fjobrien.bsky.social

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.bsky.social. Great to have so many PPI collaborators, research staff and RCSI president Deborah McNamara in attendance.

StAR Lecturer Ian Woods presenting on his research to date on electroconducive 3D-printed MXene based scaffolds for neural repair applications at #TERMIS 2026 today! @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social

An exciting opportunity for a PostDoc Fellow Position available on AMBER Funded Project! Come work with AMBER Researcher and Senior Lecturer in the RCSI Chemistry Department Marco Monopoli www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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!

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'! @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social

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

Great to have Prof John Mulvihill from the University of Limerick with us in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland today to give an excellent seminar on the role of meningitis in concussion @rcsi.bsky.social

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

RCSI has marked a significant milestone with the official opening of 118 St Stephen’s Green by Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and Minister James Lawless TD. This €95 million development represents a long-term investment in Ireland’s health system. Learn more 🔗 www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-... #SDGs

We were delighted to welcome Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister James Lawless 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.bsky.social

Congratulations Ian Woods! 🥳

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

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. @fjobrien.bsky.social

Wonderful to have Magnus Tägil with us in @rcsi.bsky.social 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'! @fjobrien.bsky.social

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.bsky.social Research Day 2026! 🥳 @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi-research.bsky.social

Congratulations to Giulio Brunetti on being awarded an Invention Disclosure award as part of the Vice Chancellor Innovation Awards at the @rcsi.bsky.social Research Day 2026! @rcsi-research.bsky.social @fjobrien.bsky.social

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

Juan Carlos Palomeque-Chavez 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.bsky.social Research Day 2026! @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi-research.bsky.social

Hadeel Abu Shaqrah presenting at the @rcsi.bsky.social Research Day 2026 on her work to date on the development of a zonal composite scaffold for load-bearing and cell-derived regeneration of articular cartilage! @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi-research.bsky.social

A thread including some photos of our wonderful presenters at @rcsi.bsky.social Research Day 2026! @fjobrien.bsky.social @rcsi-research.bsky.social

Our latest @tissueengdublin.bsky.social paper in Bioactive Materials on a new #bioactive #biomaterial for #woundhealing showing how scaffold-mediated miRNA-155 inhibition promotes regenerative macrophage polarisation to direct chronic wound healing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scaffold-mediated miRNA-155 inhibition promotes regenerative macrophage polarisation leading to anti-inflammatory, angiogenic and neurogenic responses for wound healing

Chronic wounds represent a significant clinical challenge due to persistent inflammation and impaired nerve regeneration that delay healing. Conventio…

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Head of TERG and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation in RCSI, @fjobrien.bsky.social, delivers the welcome address for RCSI Research Day 2026! @rcsi.bsky.social @rcsi-research.bsky.social

AMBER Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences develop a novel implant that delivers tiny growth-promoting particles directly to injured nerve cells helping them to regrow after spinal cord injury. ambercentre.ie/amber-resear... #bioengineering @tissueengdublin.bsky.social