School of Medicine

School of Medicine Research

UCC is Ireland’s premier research institution and home to a number of major national research institutes and groups. This culture of research and critical thinking is fostered and encouraged among our students. Students engage in research from the beginning of their student years and are given structured teaching in research methodologies and offered a variety of research-based student selected modules. All students do a student research project during their final two years as part of the core curriculum.

Each year, UCC students receive summer undergraduate research scholarships, present at national and international meetings, and publish their research in a variety of peer-reviewed and other publications. Students also publish their research projects in MRN, a new monthly medical research e-newsletter from the School of Medicine.

Medical Research News

Translational Research Access Programme (TRAP)

The Translational Research Access Programme (TRAP) will provide start-up funding for clinical and biomedical researchers to work together in developing new or existing research areas addressing a specific translational research question. This programme is intended to support translational research partnerships to a point where a more substantial grant application can be made. The TRAP programme is available to academic staff in all Departments of the School of Medicine at UCC and to all consultant clinicians at UCC-affiliated institutions.

Professor George Shorten, Dean of the School of Medicine at UCC, explained the idea behind the Translational Research Access Programme.  'All important research initally starts as a small project based on a scientific question. When scientists and clinicians work together, from the beginning, on a specific research question, great things happen. But often that first step is the most difficult one. We hope that TRAP support will make it easier, and that, in time, these research projects will translate into clinical benefit’.

The awards (up to ten per year) are subject to the applicant’s obtaining the appropriate institutional ethical approval. The research must be completed within one year of the award and applicants will be required to submit a final report to the School’s Research Committee within 12 weeks of project completion.

Further information can be found in the links below