Dr Simpson is the director of Life Sciences in SFI.  His talk will focus on grants and funding available from SFI. In particular, he will discuss:

• SFI Research Frontiers Programme
• Mobility grants
• Young investigator grants
• Future SFI funding

Dr Simpson joined SFI in 2008 from the internationally-renowned “Science” journal based in Cambridge, UK, where he held the position of Associate Editor from 2000 to 2005 and Senior Editor since 2005.

Prior to his appointment at Science, Dr Simpson held both postdoctoral and faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, US from 1992 to 1997 and a Research Fellow position at University College Dublin, St. Vincent’s from 1997 to 1998.

Dr Simpson obtained a Bachelor of Science in Zoology at Nottingham University, UK and a PhD in Immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research, London in 1991.  He was awarded Young Investigator of the Year by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America in 1995.

The Academic Contract Research Association (ARCS) was set up in December 2006, and launched in 2007. The aim of the association is to represent contract researchers in UCC, and to raise issues of relevance and concern to them.  The current elected chairman is Dr Gordon Dalton, from the Hydraulics and Maritime Research centre (HMRC) and is the current president of the Irish Research Staff Association (IRSA) for 2010.

Picture:  Dr Stephen Simpson

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