🧠 Discover what makes your brain incredible! This August, families can explore memory, movement and brain health with Your Incredible Brain, an interactive science show inspired by FutureNeuro’s #MyMovingBrain programme. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/from-my-movi... @researchireland.ie @rcsi.bsky.social

💡 Sleep difficulties affect up to 80% of children with autism. The #FamilySleeps study, led by FutureNeuro PI Prof Lorna Lopez at @maynoothuniversity.ie, is partnering with families to better understand why & to shape more inclusive research. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/why-can-slee...

What role does microglia play in Alzheimer's disease? New research involving FutureNeuro Investigator Prof Mark Cunningham at @tcddublin.bsky.social, published in Brain, sheds new light on how microglia help maintain healthy brain network activity. 🔗 Read more: futureneurocentre.ie/publications...

💡 A key message from last week's Neurology at the Forefront of Innovation event: Ireland has cutting-edge research and a highly skilled workforce. Now we need the infrastructure and capacity to translate this strength into better neurological health outcomes. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-...

FutureNeuro was proud to contribute to an Associated Event of Ireland's EU Presidency, helping shape discussions on the future of neurological health in Europe. Research and innovation must be embedded in healthcare to improve outcomes for patients. #WorldBrainDay #Ireland2026EU @braincouncil.eu

Thank you to the NAI for bringing together this important event during Ireland's EU Presidency. We're proud to be a partner and look forward to joining colleagues from research, healthcare, policy & patient advocacy to help shape the conversation on neurological health across Europe. #WorldBrainDay

🧠 Could a cancer drug help protect the brain after stroke? New research, involving FutureNeuro NeuroInsight Fellow Dr Gergő Porkoláb, suggests it might be. 👉 Read more: futureneurocentre.ie/publications... @researchireland.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

Research has the greatest potential to improve lives when informed by patient experience. Through our Researcher Clinic Visit Programme at Beaumont Hospital's Epilepsy Clinic, FutureNeuro researchers gain firsthand insight into epilepsy care, strengthening patient-centred research. #WhyWeDoResearch

📢 Calling all early-career researchers! Join the Interdisciplinary Health Research Networking Event on 28 Aug to connect with NeuroInsight, NeuroAdapt, FutureNeuro and Insight researchers, share your work, and explore new collaborations. Register by July 18: docs.google.com/forms/d/19V9...

👏 Congratulations to FutureNeuro Investigator Dr Michael-John Dolan on being selected as a 2026 @fkne-scholars.bsky.social. This prestigious programme recognises outstanding early-career neuroscientists across Europe: futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-... @researchireland.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

🤝 We’re delighted to bring everyone together today at @rcsi.bsky.social for the official kick-off of the FutureNeuro–Ozlo collaboration, which will evaluate personalised in-ear sleep technology and its impact on sleep disturbance and circadian health in adults with #Epilepsy. #DigitalHealth

💡FutureNeuro is delighted to be co-funding this PhD studentship with the Rinn AI Centre, bringing together AI, genomics and epilepsy research to help improve epilepsy risk prediction in Ireland. Applications close on July 3: www.rcsi.com/dublin/resea... @researchireland.ie @rcsi.bsky.social

🤝 We were delighted to visit FutureNeuro Investigator Dr @brennan-lab-ucd.bsky.social and his team at the Conway Institute, UCD, this week. Great discussions on public engagement, engaged research, communications and growing our PPI community across FutureNeuro. #PPI #PublicEngagement

👏 Congratulations to FutureNeuro StAR Lecturer at @rcsi.bsky.social, Dr Chris Greene, who has been awarded a prestigious 2026 Lister Prize Fellowship for his research on the blood–brain barrier & its role in schizophrenia. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/dr-chris-gre... @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

🎉 FutureNeuro Investigator Prof Rory Johnson (UCD) has been awarded a €2.5m ERC Advanced Grant to support research into long non-coding RNAs and RNA-based therapeutics. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-... @erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

New FutureNeuro supported research shows adenosine can have opposite effects on the blood–brain barrier depending on which side it acts from. Read more: futureneurocentre.ie/publications... @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

🔬 FutureNeuro has launched a new industry-supported study to improve outcomes in first-episode psychosis. Using large-scale proteomics, the research will identify biological markers that could support more personalised treatments & improve long-term outcomes. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-...

Our NeuroInsight #MSCA Fellow, Dr Emily McLaughlin, is exploring how speech data could help us understand motor neurone disease. A DigiBio placement shifted how she thinks about building digital health tools that actually work in real life. Learn more: futureneurocentre.ie/msca-fellow-...

Can positive childhood experiences influence health later in life? A new study involving FutureNeuro researchers explored links between supportive childhood experiences and inflammation in early adulthood. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/publications... @researchireland.ie @rcsi.bsky.social

📣 We’re delighted to announce a new collaboration between FutureNeuro and Ozlo, exploring how sleep technology may support people living with #Epilepsy. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-... @rcsi.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @rcsi-research.bsky.social @epilepsyireland.bsky.social

Congratulations to FutureNeuro researchers Prof Robert Forster & Dr Áine Brady on their latest publication demonstrating wirefree drug release using conducting polymers, a promising advance for precision medicine. 🔗 futureneurocentre.ie/publications... @dcuresearch.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Delighted to be attending #EACD2026 and sharing learnings from the #MyMovingBrain series. Our poster highlights how conversations between people with lived experience, families, coaches, clinicians & researchers are helping drive more inclusive physical activity opportunities. @researchireland.ie

🌟 This National Epilepsy Week, we’re highlighting engaged research at FutureNeuro. From exploring ways to prevent post-traumatic epilepsy to pioneering therapies for rare conditions, our work is guided by patients and families. Read more: futureneurocentre.ie/spotlight-on... @researchireland.ie

🙌 Great to welcome @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social to @rcsi.bsky.social for the first of a two-part Scientific Communication Workshop with our NeuroInsight and NeuroAdapt Fellows, exploring how to communicate complex research more clearly, creatively and effectively.

Great to have been at the Kildare Inclusivity Festival 🧠🔬 The FutureNeuro team had a fantastic day engaging with visitors of all ages through hands-on brain science activities and sharing our My Moving Brain initiative and work on inclusion in sport & physical activity. @kildarecoco.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our PPI in Neurological Research training session with the NeuroAdapt and NeuroInsight Fellows. A valuable opportunity to build skills in meaningful PPI, share experiences, and strengthen engaged research across neurological research. @researchireland.ie

The FutureNeuro team is excited to be joining the Kildare Inclusivity Festival this weekend with fun, hands-on brain science activities 🧠🔬 Find us in the Indoor Zone (Zone 11) to meet our researchers and have a go at being a scientist! @researchireland.ie

Yesterday, our ERC-funded FRONTIERS Science Journalism Resident, Rebecca Graham, hosted a workshop at @rcsi.bsky.social exploring how researchers can work effectively with the media, avoid common pitfalls, and strengthen their storytelling skills. @researchireland.ie @erc.europa.eu

Lyndsey Butterworth, our Education and Public Engagement Lead, spoke at the University of Birmingham, presenting FutureNeuro’s approach to EPE to Dr Felix Chan’s research team—highlighting how meaningful patient engagement strengthens research and real-world impact.

💡 In a new @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article, our PhD candidate Sujithra Srinivas explores how epilepsy research is moving beyond seizure control—towards understanding and targeting the underlying brain changes that make seizures possible. 🔗 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @researchireland.ie