Board, and the National Neuroscience Network
via the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI).
This funding has spawned a tremendous increase in neuroscience research
on this island. This new professional organisation - Neuroscience
Ireland - will have formal statutes, and be affiliated to the Federation
of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
Members will have the advantage of being integrated with a large
number of national European neuroscience societies, and be eligible
to sponsor abstracts at the Society for Neuroscience meetings.
A newsletter and other neuroscience events throughout the year as
advertised via this official web site will enhance the strength
and profile of neuroscience research in Ireland.
Neuroscience Ireland will host an annual Neuroscience meeting which
will reach out to our clinical neuroscientists. The inaugural Neuroscience
Ireland meeting was held in September 2006 in Cork to formally launch
the Society, and to hold elections and the second meeting was held
in Galway in 2008. Both meetings attracted nearly 200 delegates.
In addition, the 2007 British Neuroscience Association meeting in
Harrogate was held in association with Neuroscience Ireland, and
provided an excellent platform to raise the profile of Neuroscience
in Ireland with our colleagues in the UK. Our next meeting (September
2009) will be hosted by hosted by our members in Trinity College
Dublin in the wonderful setting of the new Science Gallery.
We would like to encourage you all to join Neuroscience Ireland
so that it will be representative of our diverse neuroscience
groups and institutions on this island. You will Find a copy of
the membership application form on this website.
We also encourage you to attend the inaugural Neuroscience Ireland
meeting in Trinity later this year. We particularly extend this
invitation to our colleagues in Northern Ireland.We are very much
looking forward to your active participation in Neuroscience Ireland,
and appreciate your comments and suggestions.
There has never been a better time to be a neuroscientist in
Ireland!
Sincerely,
Kieran McDermott
(on behalf of the Neuroscience Ireland
Interim Committee)
