Traynor Fellowship 2024/2025

July 2024 – June 2025

Closing date for Receipt of Applications 15^th March 2024

Fellowship details:

This project is multi-faceted and is part of a longitudinal study exploring the influence of circadian rhythms    in regulating retinal vascular integrity in age related macular degeneration (AMD). Added to this, we will embark on a new project exploring the integrity of the retinal vasculature in repetitive head trauma as it pertains to current and retired athletes. The clinical research fellow will be expected to contribute to both projects and undertake a Masters degree by thesis.

The role combines clinical sessions with Mr. Mark Cahill, and clinical research/ lab-based investigations in Trinity College Dublin and its associated facilities with Professor Matthew Campbell. The clinical research involves direct patient contact including recruitment, performing clinical assessments, investigations and taking bloods for analysis. In the AMD project, circadian differences will be measured based on an individual’s sleep/wake cycle and testing is conducted in the morning and evening for comparison. Similar methods will be used to examine retinal vascular integrity in current and retired athletes who were/are engaged in contact/collision sports.

Fellowship Terms & Conditions

The Traynor Fund will provide the successful Research Fellow with a stipend of twenty-thousand-euro (€20,000) over a twelve (12) month period.

• Traynor Fellow may apply for 80% of the fees for their postgraduate master’s degree which is separate to the stipend available for the fellowship. This element of funding can be applied for only after submission of  their postgraduate thesis.
• Fellow must report on research project outputs six (6) months following the award, and again at the    end of the academic year (which runs from July to June).
• It is a mandatory requirement for recipients of Traynor Fellowship funding to apply for joint  HRCI/HRB funding if approved by the Traynor Committee.
• It is a mandatory requirement for recipients of the Traynor Fellowship that they present their findings at the annual meeting of the Irish College of Ophthalmologists in the academic year of their fellowship.
• It is a mandatory requirement for recipients of the Traynor Fellowship that they present their findings at the Eithne Walls Research Meeting in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital in the academic year of their fellowship.

Applications should be submitted to the Research Foundation, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital by E mail to tim.carpenter@rveeh.ie

For further information please contact: tim.carpenter@rveeh.ie, cahillretina@yahoo.ie or CAMPBEM2@tcd.ie