Seed Funding Awards
The HRB Primary Care CTNI is committed to supporting research in primary care.
Since 2021, we have run a competitive Seed Funding Award programme, intended to help researchers move their research along and provide a basis for further funded work.
We are happy to have supported a number of researchers since this programme began. To find out more about the work we have supported, see our project summaries below.
Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar - Refining the Choosing Health Infant feeding for Infant Health intervention and implementation strategy: Re-CHErIsH
- BA(Hons), HDip, PGDip, MA, PhD
- Affiliation: University College Cork
- Institutional Profile: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/C010/karenmsikar
- Position: Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University College Cork

Dr Patrick Redmond - Design and development of a Lung Cancer Screening Recruitment Tool
- MB BCh BAO PhD MMEd MRCPI MICGP FRACGP FHEA PG Dip (Statistics)
- Affiliation: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Institutional Profile: https://www.rcsi.com/people/profile/PREDMOND
- Position: General Practitioner and Senior Lecturer in General Practice
- Research Interests: Primary care; Cancer; Early Detection
- E-mail: predmond@rcsi.ie
