RESC research addresses a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our work on cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment and biotherapeutics addresses UN SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and our work on the toxic effects of hazardous substances underpins the goals set out under SDG14 Life under Water and SDG6 Clean Water and Sanitation. 

 

Impactful outcomes include the generation of high quality new knowledge (>230 publications with >8000 citations, filing of 6 patents (3 granted), Enterprise Ireland ‘One to Watch’ award), the production of a highly educated workforce of 44 PhD students graduated, attraction of >10 international postdoctoral researchers to Ireland, and contribution to the international profile of Ireland.

 

The overall 10 year research performance of RESC is shown below:

Of these RESC publications, more than 70% are Open Access and approx. 26% have been published in the top 10% journals:

Almost half of RESC publications have involved international collaboration and a third have involved national collaboration:

 

RESC is committed to Open Research. ARROW@TU Dublin allows us to make our publications open access and to reach a much wider audience. To date, 107 RESC items have been downloaded >70,000 times by >3500 institutions in >160 countries  https://arrow.tudublin.ie/rad/