Student Research Grants
By Prof Ronan O’Connell
Over the years the Mater Foundation has awarded grants to students to carry out research. In 2004/05 €100,000 was awarded, below is just some of the areas grants were awarded to.
Centre For Liver Disease:
- An Investigation of Hepatitis C Virus Infection at Transcriptome level by Comparative Gene Expression Analysis
- Expression of Human and Duodenal Iron Transport Genes in Hereditary Haemochromatosis.
- The Role of Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the progression of Chronic Hepatitis C virus infection
- The use of a surrogate tissue to profile gene expression in chronic Hepatitis C infection
Department of Neurology
- The Genetics of Parkinsons Disease in Ireland
- Linkage Disequilibrium + Mapping of Pro-Thrombotic Genes and Inherited Susceptibility to Thrombo-Embolic Ischaemic Stroke
Department Pathology
- Molecular Profiling of PRA, PRB and ER alpha () as an Indicator for Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer
Department of Surgery
- The Role of Intestinal Fibroblasts in the Pathogenesis of Stricture Formation in Crohn’s Disease
- Investigation of Progesterone Receptor B (PRB), Growth Arrest-Specific Gene 6 (Gas6), Beta-catenin, and the Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) pathway as indicators of recurrence in breast cancer.
