Post by Trinity College Dublin

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Róisín Mc Mackin who has been recently awarded the prestigious FENS Early Career Investigator. Róisin is an Assistant Professor of Physiology leading award-winning electrophysiology-based research of neurodegeneration, with a passion for equity and inclusivity in academia and medicine. #FENS is the European federation for #Neuroscience research and its awards recognise outstanding contributions to the field of neuroscience research. Róisin’s distinguished contributions to the field of neuroscience research to date has centred around the use of electrophysiological methods to understand and identify potential tests for neurodegenerative diseases FENS encompasses the national bodies for Neuroscience research across Europe, and so the recipients are selected from a much larger pool of researchers of a wide array of neuroscience expertise, as opposed to those focussed on a specific area of neuroscience research or national awards. Additionally, it is only awarded every other year, in alignment with the FENS Forum conference. This year the Early Career Investigator award was split between Roisin and two other people which is a very small number of awardees given that any ECI who researches any aspect of neuroscience.  Given that any ECI who researches any aspect of neuroscience across all of Europe is eligible to the award. Speaking on her award, Róisin said: "I'm honoured to receive the FENS-EJN Young Investigator Prize 2026. The research of my team, international collaborators and I aims to improve how we assess brain network activity and it's disruption in diseases including motor neurone disease and Huntington's disease. Such measurements could revolutionise our ability to predict, detect and treat neurological decline. I'm very grateful that the importance of this work has been recognised by the leading organisation for neuroscience across Europe. Through our ongoing expanding research, we hope to translate findings into practical tools for assessing brain function and supporting brain health." #TrinityResearch #TrinityExpert #NeuroscienceResearch School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin - Neuroscience Ireland