Three NUI Galway research scientists have been awarded grants as part of a €7.9million Science Foundation Ireland grant scheme. Dr Kimon Andreas Karatzas, Dr Eva Szegezdi and Dr Hongyun Tai all received grants in excess of half a million euro from the Government-run scheme announced last week by Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Conor Lenihan.

According to Minister Lenihan, investments such as this are vital to Ireland’s future research projects.

"It is vital that we have in Ireland the mechanism to keep and attract to Ireland highly skilled, early-stage career researchers," said the Minister.

"These 15 outstanding individuals are among the brightest working in Irish laboratories today, and SIRG provides them with the necessary support to enable the transition from team member to independent and accomplished innovator in their respective fields. It will also allow them to recruit 15 postgraduate students," he concluded.

Dr Szegezdi's studies will focus on a cancer survival rates and treatments; Dr Karatzas proposes to establish the existence of a pathway in the listeria pathogen and elucidate its contribution to acid tolerance and invasion; while Dr Hongyun Tai will concentrate on a minimally invasive tissue engineering scaffolds for repair of the nucleus pulposus of an intervertebral disc.

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