Our Vision: is to be a leader in targeted research areas and make ground-breaking contributions to the ever-changing health needs of the world’s society and the economy. With our applied focus remit and long-term external networks in a range of fields, we work seamlessly with collaborators across the greater Dublin area, and many others at national and international level.
The applications of research carried out in the Centre of Applied Science for Health has led to a number of patents, spin-off commercial activities, long-term collaborations, new technologies and diagnostic tools that have been validated by a wide range of industries.
We have
- In excess of 200 peer reviewed journal article publications
- Over 15 invention disclosures and 5 patent filings, some of which have real potential for the enhancement of quality of life e.g. vaccine candidate molecules identified that can provide protective immunity against certain microbial pathogens of the lung.
- 55 PhD graduates to date and 35 postgraduate research students currently
- Over 60 innovation vouchers with various companies that has provided a variety of advanced technical services to industry to support their manufacturing, product and process development activities.
- Knowledge Transfer/Exchange – an example being the NMR service (through NMRics) to local and national industry (e.g. Henkel Loctite, Nterra, TopChem, and others) supporting their ongoing research and process optimization efforts; the PAT (Process Analytical Technology) Centre provides advanced analytical and troubleshooting services to a number of companies including Pfizer, Takeda, Castolin, Coca-Cola, Bimeda and others.
As a Research Institute engaged in research, the impact and increasing internationalisation of our research activity is evident in publication data from Scopus Data.
The 5-year figure points to:
- 1121 citations;
- the field weighted citation impact is 1.9, and
- the citations per publication is more than twice the world average of 6.6 citations per publication.
At present:
- 20.2% of our publications are in the top 10% most cited worldwide (Irish average is 17.8%).
- 24.1% are in the top 10% of journals, which is close to the Irish average of 32.7%.
- Close on 60% (59.5%) of publications had international collaboration which is up on the 2015 figure of 48.7% (Irish average is 52.09%).
- 10.7% of our publications are with corporate organisations.
