COVID-19 (Coronavirus): List of successful projects and case studies

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