The founder of the Growcorp venture capital group, Professor Michael Donnelly, has secured €65 million for a new fund aimed at investing in lifescience and green technology companies in Ireland, the UK and Israel. The fund has secured commitments from Irelandia, PwC and two private investors. ...read more

Opsona Therapeutics is one of six companies that will split $2.1 million in new grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The foundation's Therapeutics Development Initiative, which provided the funding, aims to drive pre-clinical projects pushing forward investigations of ...read more

An Enterprise Ireland-funded research centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology is working with the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs tackling conditions such as osteoarthritis and urinary incontinence with reduced side effects. The Ion Channel Biotechnology Centre was officially opened ...read more

Cork based company Luxcel Biosciences, the specialist producer of luminescence based gas and pH sensors and related tests, has today (Thursday 21 January 2010) announced a major strategic ...read more

US Visit to Enhance Research Collaboration and Draw New Wave of American Students to Ireland - Representatives from all seven Irish universities are this week traveling to New York and Washington, in a joint initiative coordinated by Enterprise Ireland, to boost collaboration between Irish ...read more