Emmeline Hill of University College Dublin has won the 2014 Nova UCD Innovation Award for her discoveries in equine genomics and for spinning out a company to commercialise them.
Equinome, which employs 10 people, is based at the Nova UCD incubation centre for young companies. Hill has developed a number of genetic tests and now sells them in Ireland and in Australia. The company plans also to open a US office during 2015, which will double company employment.
Hill co-founded Equinome in 2009 with the Irish trainer and breeder Jim Bolger. She identified a gene that was linked to a horse’s capacity for long races, thus influencing a horse’s value or how it might be trained.
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