The Meath Foundation continued its commitment to support Healthcare research in 2023 by awarding five Research Grants:
- Prof Seamas Donnelly (Professor of Medicine, TUH and Trinity College Dublin) “Analysis of breath sample Aryl Hydrocarbons as potential prognostic biomarkers in Long-COVID patients”.
- Dr Aoife Garrahy (Consultant Endocrinologist) “Do all patients with SIAD require cross-sectional imaging and long-term follow-up? A retrospective analysis and prospective cohort study of CT imaging, biochemical and clinical outcome in patients with chronic SIAD”.
- Prof Sean Kennelly (Consultant Physician in Geriatric & Stroke Medicine) “DRIVE-AD: Defining the Role of Sex-Specific Viral Exposures in Early Alzheimer Disease”.
- Prof David Kane (Consultant of Rheumatology & Clinical Professor of Rheumatology, HSE National Clinical Lead of Rheumatology) (The John Barragry Award 2023) “Ultrasound diagnosis of “Silent” Giant Cell Arteritis in Polymyalgia Rheumatica.”
- Prof Dominick McCabe (Consultant Neurologist) “Prevalence of single nucleotide platelet polymorphisms and their influence on responsiveness to antiplatelet therapy in patients with transient ischaemic attack/ischaemic stroke”.
The 2023 Meath Foundation Research Fellowship was awarded to Doctor Helena Dolphin, Senior Registrar, Clinical Fellow in Department of Age-Related HealthCare TUH for her research project entitled “NIBS-VNS: Neurocardiovascular, Inflammatory Biomarker and domain-Specific cognitive impairment: Trial of transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Mild Cognitive Impairment”.