{"id":413017,"date":"2026-04-23T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:34:11","slug":"it-means-the-world-dublin-doctor-wins-award-at-oscars-of-science-for-brain-disease-discovery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413017\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It means the world\u2019 \u2013 Dublin doctor wins award at \u2018Oscars of science\u2019 for brain disease discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor with their awards for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at the ceremony in LA. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776926051_186_Bryan Traynor.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor with their awards for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at the ceremony in LA. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Dublin-born doctor who is based in the US has received a top award at the \u201cOscars of science\u201d for a ground\u00adbreaking discovery that transformed global understanding of a devastating brain disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bryan Traynor, who grew up in Mount Merrion and graduated from UCD, is now a senior investigator at the US \u00adNational Institute on Ageing, part of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor with their awards for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at the ceremony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4593,103,61,60,5762],"class_list":{"0":"post-413017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ucd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}