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Delivering Innovative Solutions to Real-World Problems, Through Transdisciplinary Research GROUP OVERVIEW The CTRG is a multidisciplinary research cluster To Deliver Innovative Solutions We combine expertise from multiple fields of bio-nano-info & cognitive technologies To Real World In Convergent WHAT CTRG…? Problems IS THE Applications We strive to create & foster dynamic environments for collaborative research Why? Through Multidisciplinary Research & Collaboration EXPERTISE & RESEARCH INTERESTS Biomedical Engineering & Biomedical Devices Process Engineering, Control & Wireless Communications Composite Materials WHAT DO WE DO…? Integrated Circuit Design, Semiconductors & Microelectronic Devices Technological Convergence & Multidisciplinary Collaboration Advanced Materials Development & Processing Mechanical Engineering & Design CURRENT FUNDED PROJECTS Water Control & Management System (WCMS) Dielectric Thermoplastic Elastomers Arterial Vascular Modelling using Hydrogels Infrastructural Technologies (Water, Energy & The Enviornment) Design & Implementation of a Patented Remote Water Control Technology (Enterprise Ireland Funded Commercialisation Project) Development of Novel, Electrically Sensitive NanoStructural Materials for Wave Energy Harvesting & Infrastructural Applications Materials Development (Polymeric Formulations, Polymer Processing & SCF Enabled Technologies) Passive & Active Medical Devices (Mock Cardiovascular Loops, Catheter Technologies & Implantable Platforms) Research to develop biomaterial replicates of arterial vessels in conjunction with AIT & VIT, India CURRENT FUNDED PROJECTS Research & Academia Soft Contact Lens Development & Controlled Ocular Drug Delivery Supercritical FluidIndustry Enabled & Manufacturing Polymer Processing Passive/Active Medical Device Platforms & Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy The CTRG engages with, and provides innovative solutions to, a wide range of disciplines in multiple fields of engineering, science & technology Clinicians/ Surgeons & Medical Professionals Development of Drug Eluting Contact Lenses & Custom Manufacturing Platforms for Same; In Collaboration with WINSS & PMBRC Cryo-foaming, vaccine Collaborations encapsulation, extractions, in New & smart moulding etc. Emerging In Collaboration with SCF Fields Processing Ltd. & Applied Polymer Technologies, AIT Development of Technology Platforms for Connected Health, Early Disease Detection etc. with Multiple Clinical Partnerships Formed FOR MOREWWW.CTRG.IE INFORMATION GO TO… Delivering Innovative Solutions to Real-World Problems, Through Transdisciplinary Research Dr Austin Coffey, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., MBA, MIEI, MIOM, MSPE www.ctrg.ie [email protected]