[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A new study published in the Translational Vision Science and Technology (TVST), an ARVO journal, has revealed that targeted nutrition can significantly reduce ‘eye floaters’ as well as their associated discomforts. This study reports the outcomes of the...

15 October, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 2019, the Waterford Institute of Technology recognised the significance of the scientific achievements of Dr Alan Howard and his support of the work of WIT by awarding him an Institutional Fellowship,  the highest award WIT can bestow. Sadly...

17 September, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]‘Quality of Life and Memory can be enhanced for Alzheimer’s patients” On the September 8th Professor John Nolan and Dr Rebecca Power of the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland (NRCI) at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in collaboration with Professor...

09 September, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] A new study reports on sunlight and nutrition as being key contributors to eye health. This research was published by a team led by Dr Marina Green from The Nutrition Research Centre Ireland in Waterford Institute of Technology. It...

19 July, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today, the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland approved the application by Howard Foundation Holdings of a patent for “Prevention and/or treatment of neurodegenerative disease”. The inventors are the late Dr Alan Howard, Professor John Nolan of the Nutrition...

09 July, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a bid to assist and offer transparency to the circa 2 billion nutritional supplement industry, Professor John Nolan and Dr Alfonso Prado-Cabrero and their colleagues at WIT have established ‘Supplement Certified’ an independent scientific certification for assessing...

05 May, 2021

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Waterford researcher has won a prestigious European fellowship worth more than €170,000 that will allow her to further develop her postdoctoral research on the role that nutrition plays in cognitive health. Dr Rebecca Power is a Howard Research Fellow at...

15 April, 2021

The real-world impact of this research is underlined by how the new formulation is being commercialised in the U.S. by MacuHealth and in Europe by MacuPrime A new formulation can greatly increase the efficacy of nutritional supplements that are increasingly recognised for their value to eye...

19 August, 2020

WIT researcher wins prestigious award for macular pigment research for vision health and function and his more recent work on macular pigment as a biomarker for brain nutrition and its connection to cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease   Prof Nolan has an impressive research track record focusing...

08 May, 2020
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