Equine scientist receives prestigious award
Leading genomics scientist Dr Emmeline Hill has been named the Irish Tatler 2012 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year at an awards ceremony held inward Dublin.
Hill, a scientist at the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Agriculture together with Food Science, is too a co-founder of the UCD spin-out fellowship Equinome, is based at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures together with Entrepreneurs at UCD.
The Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards were designed to recognise together with vantage Ireland’s nearly influential together with successful women. In amount fourteen awards were presented to some of Ireland’s leading women from the worlds of business, media together with entertainment, fashion together with music.
This yr represents the kickoff occasion that a dedicated Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award has been presented.
“I am delighted together with honoured to hold upwards the kickoff recipient of this prestigious award,” Hill said.
“I am thrilled for science, excogitation together with entrepreneurship to hold upwards celebrated amidst women, together with it is a privilege to portion a phase amongst the other remarkable women who accept been recognised for their amazing achievements.”
Hill hails from a position unit of measurement synonymous amongst Equus caballus racing together with breeding inward Ireland. Her grandmother was Charmian Hill, the possessor of Dawn Run, the solely racehorse to accept completed the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle (1984) together with Gold Cup (1986) double.
Hill joined UCD inward 2002 every bit a post-doctoral researcher. In 2004, she received a Science Foundation Republic of Ireland laurels which supported a five-year programme of locomote at UCD to investigate the genomics of functioning inward thoroughbred horses.
In 2009, this query led to the world’s kickoff known identification of a cistron contributing to a specific athletic trait inward thoroughbred horses. This gene, called myostatin, was found to predict sprinting might together with stamina potential, which tin directly position a thoroughbred every bit a potential sprinter, middle-distance or long-distance horse.
Equinome was established past times Hill inward 2009 to commercialise the results of this research, through the Equinome Speed Gene Test, inward partnership amongst the renowned racehorse trainer together with breeder Jim Bolger.
Using the results of the company’s minute test, Equinome Elite Performance Test, thoroughbred owners together with breeders tin at nowadays too increase their chances of successfully identifying those foals together with yearlings nearly probable to perform at the elite level.
Equinome has already secured clients closed to the footing including inward the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK, France, Hong Kong together with Singapore.
Speaking at the awards ceremony Norah Casey, CEO, Harmonia said, “I honey these awards because they are then inspiriting, what could hold upwards ameliorate inward the electrical current climate than celebrating the best women inward Ireland. I accept been doing these awards for 12 years at nowadays together with the calibre of winners only gets ameliorate together with better.
“We started over a decade agone amongst a handful of nominations inward the women inward trace organization category it’s at nowadays our largest together with nosotros accept added inward the women entrepreneur awards for the kickoff time.”
At the lawsuit boxing supremo together with Olympic gilded medallist Katie Taylor was named the Irish Tatler 2012 Woman of the Year. Not solely was she recognised for her sporting achievements, but too the purpose she has played inward raising the profile of women’s boxing. In add-on to taking dwelling trace solid Ireland’s solely gilded medal from London 2012, she is iv fourth dimension World Champion together with v fourth dimension European Champion.
Irish Tatler 2012 Women of the Year Award Winners:
Irish Tatler Woman of the Year: Katie Taylor
Business: Louise Phelan
Entrepreneur: Dr Emmeline Hill
Sport: Bethany Firth
Media: Aine Lawlor
Film & Drama: Ruth Bradley
Literature: Kathleen McMahon
Fashion Design: Heidi Higgins
Public Life: Dr Rhona Mahony
Music: Maria Doyle Kennedy
Entertainment: Jennifer Maguire
Special Recognition: Denise Charlton
Special Achievement: Female members of Team Republic of Ireland who competed inward the Paralympics
Catherine Walsh, Fran Meehan, Helen Kearney, Catherine O’Neill, Geraldine Savage, Eilish Byrne,
Orla Barry, Bethany Firth.
Hall of Fame: Catherine McGuinness
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