Laboratory for Biomedical Data Mining, NUI Galway
Dr Michael Madden
"The goal of this project is to establish and develop a new interdisciplinary research lab for Data Mining in Biomedical Science in the National University of Ireland, Galway. This is a new area of research expertise for the university. It will integrate and extend research being conducted here by several separate research groups.
We applied for funding under Marie Curie Fellowship programme as it supports academic institutions seeking to develop new areas of expertise and improve their research potential. This is achieved through hosting of postdoctoral researchers, who bring with them specialist skills and knowledge related to the new area of expertise being developed, and through research training secondments by the project participants to other institutions abroad, so that they can acquire new knowledge and bring it back to absorbed and embedded in the university.
This project will form the focus point for a community of researchers in NUI Galway with an international research profile in the area of biomedical data mining. It will result in advancements in the state of the art, both in machine learning/data mining technologies and in biomedical applications. More broadly, it will contribute to NUI Galway's capacity to perform research, and help to improve the competitiveness within the knowledge economy of the Objective 1 Region in which Galway is located. It will also enhance our interactions with other European research institutes, and help promote research as a profession.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Irish Marie Curie office at the IUA for their assistance in this. Dr Conor O'Carroll first brought the programme to our attention when he gave a presentation about Marie Curie opportunities in NUI Galway. He also provided very practical advice on how to structure a proposal and what is expected from them. The feedback they provided was timely, positive, relevant and greatly improved the overall impact of our final proposal, no doubt contributing to its success."
