MedTrain Call 1 Awardees

Name	Host Organisation	Project Title
Firas Awaja	NUI Galway	Towards Safe, Durable and Small Active Medical Implants
Stefanie Kortner	NUI Galway	Self-assembled supramolecular tissue-like constructs for tendon enthesis repair
Srinivas Jogula	NUI Galway	Small molecule inhibitors of galectins
Ronaldo Josė Farias Corrêa do Amaral	RCSI	Development of novel constructs through incorporation of platelet-rich plasma into collagen glycosaminoglycan scaffolds for wound repair
Delphine Antoine	NUI Galway	Functionalisation of marine diatoms with recombinant antibodies – applications in T cell activation
Charu Tyagi	NUI Galway	Design and Development of a Drug Delivery Device for the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease Perianal Fistula
Katarzyna Krukiewicz	NUI Galway	Biomimetic polymer brushes as conducting coatings for neural probes
Habib Baghirov	UCC	Nanoparticle transport across the blood-brain barrier in glioblastoma treatment
Tania Hidalgo Crespo	UCC	New nanomedicines to treat neurodegenerative disease: Cyclodextrin (CDs) nanoparticles (NPs) for targeted siRNA delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB)
Neema Negi	NUI Galway	Development of a mesenchymal stromal cell-based amplifier of regulatory T-cell fitness
James Wilson	RCSI	Polycarbonate/polypeptide hybrid bioadhesive materials (PepGlue)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713690.