Led by Professor David Rooney, Chair of Chemical Engineering at the School, Bryden Centre research is aimed at harnessing the potential for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland to become leaders in marine renewable energy. The cross-border area is rich in potential and includes tidal power sites at Strangford Lough and the North Antrim Coast, ocean and offshore wind energy sites in Western Scotland, as well as the potential for wave, tidal and offshore wind power generation in Donegal.

Exploiting the strong interregional agri-food sector to support Bioenergy generation is the other key theme to the Bryden Centre. Great opportunities  exist to create energy and high-value products from organic waste while drastically reducing pollution with the ultimate prospect of creating a true circular economy and actively farming carbon from the atmosphere.

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CASE provides support for world-leading research in key areas of bio-energy, marine renewable energy, and energy systems - established in September 2013, CASE has access to £5m of research grant to fund collaborative R&D projects in partnership with academics at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute. We can also signpost companies to other grant support through Invest NI, UK Government, the EU and Internationally.

The results of CASE R&D also provide a solid base for influencing local government policy in the sustainable energy sector and we proactively promote Northern Ireland’s sustainable energy innovation capability within government circles.

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MATCH research is centred on the key question: “How can we use advanced technologies to significantly improve healthcare outcomes?”. This research centre connects researchers along the development pathway and follow a unique “molecule to patient” approach.  Currently, single-stranded strategies are applied to development and use of new healthcare products. Without a holistic approach, medicines are wasted, patients suffer avoidable adverse effects, or go untreated.

Greater interaction between those involved in identifying novel therapeutic targets, drug discovery, materials science, pharmaceutical formulation, manufacture, diagnosis, prescribing and medicines utilisation is a significant unmet need. If addressed, this stands to have major impact in the care of all patients, but especially the very young and old, representing the populations in which medicines may present the greatest risk, but have maximum benefit. MATCH takes an innovative dual approach, firstly by developing the underpinning technologies, secondly by exploiting the possibilities that these technologies present to maximum clinical and commercial advantage by selecting the best target areas and understanding patient factors.

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QUILL currently associates 14 academics and their research groups, based in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, but also in the School of Mathematics and Physics and in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

QUILL's research is strongly rooted in ionic liquids, but extends beyond to other advanced liquid and amorphous materials, such as ionogels, deep eutectic solvents and zwitterionic salts.

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The Sustainable Energy Research Centre brings together academics from across the University to investigate innovative approaches for the development in three main research themes 
– renewable energy conversion and storage; transportation; and sustainable chemical manufacturing.

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