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COVID-19 (Coronavirus): List of successful projects and case studies
- Published on: 29 April 2020
- Last updated on: 29 April 2020
| Researcher | Topic | Host Institution | Funding |
| Prof Paul Cotter | Irish Coronavirus Sequencing Consortium | Teagasc/APC | €378,716 |
| Prof Martin O’Halloran | INSPIRE: Facillitating Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) during the COVID-19 Crisis | NUIG | €205,667 |
| Prof Gil Lee, Prof Virginie Gautier, Prof Patrick Mallon | Critical Reagent Production Addressing Supply Chain Risk for COVID-19 Diagnostics | UCD | €540,263 |
| Prof Tim McCarthy | Data Platform for Emergency Response Management (DPERM) | Maynooth University | €402,323 |
| Dr Ignacio Martin-Loeches | Prognostic indicators of critically ill patients with COVID-19: Impact on early immunology and survival | TCD | €192,566 |
| Dr Nollaig Bourke | SABS-TILDA: SARS-CoV-2 specific AntiBodieS in The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing (TILDA): an opportunity to assess COVID-19 rates and phenotypes in older adults in Ireland | TCD | €199,875 |
| Dr Katarzyna Whysall | Improving long-term patient recovery and reducing disability after COVID-19 critical illness using microRNA-based approaches | NUIG | €199,621 |
| Professor Mark Little | Defining the disease course and immune profile of COVID-19 in the immunosuppressed patient (DeCOmPRESS study) | TCD | €199,908 |
| Professor James O'Donnell | Irish COVID-19 Vasculopathy Study (iCVS) | RCSI | €199,036 |
| Dr Virginie Gautier | Screening for antiviral compounds active against SARS-CoV-2 | UCD | €190,237 |
| Professor John Lambert | COVID19: The North Dublin Cohort Study | UCD | €199,098 |
| Professor Catherine Comiskey | Using a back-calculation model to estimate the scale of asymptomatic Covid-19 prevalence by age and determine the critical threshold of available susceptible persons within the community | TCD | €96,340 |
| Professor Orla Hardiman | Using telehealth to enhance management of vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 pandemic | TCD | €199,965 |
| Dr Christine Linehan | Impact of Covid 19 on Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Caregivers | UCD | €62,858 |
| Dr Emma Nicholson and Dr Thérѐse McDonnell | Cupid Covid-19: paediatric emergency department attendance during covid-19 | UCD | €107,015 |
| Professor Alice Coffey | A Rapid Resource Repository for Health Professionals (RRR-HP): An online and social media individualised support intervention for return to practice, reassigned and new to practice, nursing and allied | UL | €199,647 |
| Dr Siobhan Masterson | Rapid response and learning for later: establishing high quality information networks and evaluation frameworks for the National Ambulance Service response to COVID-19 | NUIG | €109,188 |
| Dr Aaron Golden | Expediting the diagnosis of COVID-19 in a clinical setting using AI enabled analysis of CT scans | NUIG | €83,690 |
| Professor Catherine Darker | Creating an evidence-based toolbox for targeted public health interventions during COVID-19: a cross-border analysis to disentangle psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses | TCD | €191,116 |
| Professor Donal Fortune | An investigation of psychological responses to COVID-19 in health care workers during the delay and mitigation phase of disease management: longitudinal and nested qualitative study | UL | €175,013 |
| Professor Rose Anne Kenny | Altered lives in a time of crisis: Preparing for recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of older adults | TCD | €175,322 |
| Dr Sinéad Smyth | Autism specific Transition RESources : a response to the COVID-19 related restrictions (TRes) | DCU | €123,370 |
| Dr Gerard Molloy | Optimising Covid-19 social distancing communications: Identifying and addressing psychosocial determinants of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic | NUIG | €148,745 |
| Professor Ivan Perry | Covid-19: Estimating the burden of symptomatic disease in the community and the impact of public health measures on physical, mental and social wellbeing | UCC | €199,945 |
| Professor Brian McGuire | Identifying mental health needs and best practice for psychological support in frontline healthcare workers during and after the COVID-19 outbreak and in future pandemics | NUIG | €187,254 |
| Professor Cathal O'Donoghue | Modelling Real Time Population Wide Impacts of COVID-19 | NUIG | €38,310 |