CBNI, UCD

CBNI – Centre for BioNano Interactions - is the national centre for excellence in nanobiology, nanomedicine and nanosafety, based in University College Dublin. CBNI is funded via an HEA PRTLI4 capital award, as well as an Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Strategic Research Cluster (BioNanoInteract). Academic partners include Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University of Limerick and University of Ulster, as well as several industry partners including Intel, ThermoFisher, Biotrin and several Irish high tech companies.

CBNI’s research themes include:

• Nanoparticle-protein interactions (Nano-omics) ;
• Visualisation and Quantitation of Nanoparticle-cell interactions
• Nanosafety, nanotoxicology, nanoecotoxicology