16 June 2010 Annual Research Conference, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex UCC
College of Medicine & Health - 2nd annual Research Conference 'MOLECULES TO MEDICINE'
The College of Medicine & Health held its annual Resaerch Day in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex on Wednesday 16th June 2010. There were over 100 registrants and the overall topic was Molecules to Medicine. The day was structured around 4 themes, each with a Keynote Speaker and three research presentations. The themes and keynote speakers were:
1 Measurement in Healthcare Research (Prof Pamela Enderby, University of Sheffield)
2 Optimising Drug Delivery and therapeutics (Mr Oliver Boucher, Signoid Pharma)
3 Immunology and Infections (Dr Simon Draper, University of Oxford)
4 Gut Health (Prof Paul Ross, Teagasc, Moorepark)
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Keynote speaker, Prof Pamela Enderby with Ciara O'Toole and Prof Michael Berndt
Michael C Berndt awards Gold Medal for Research Innovation to Ciara O'Toole, Dept of Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCC (Measuring Bilingual language acquisition)
Keynote speaker, Prof Paul Ross with Dr Declan McKernan & Michael C Berndt
Dr Declan McKernan, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, UCC receives gold medal from Prof Michael C Berndt for his oral presentation (Altered Toll Like Receptor responses in Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
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Keynote speaker, Mr Oliver Boucher, Martin O'Neill and Prof Michael C Berndt
Gold medal is awarded to Martin O'Neill of School of Pharmacy, UCC by Prof Michael C Berndt for his presentation (Cyclodextrin mediated gene delivery to the intestine-predicting cellular uptake pathways and transfection complex stability)
keynote speaker, Dr Simon Draper pictured with Andrew Coveney and Michael C Berndt
Andrew Coveney of Dept of Academic Surgery, CUH, receives his gold medal from Prof Michael C Berndt (Unravelling a novel role of myeloid-related proteins Mrp8/14 in self-tolerance and cross tolerance to Gram negative and Gram positive bacterial)
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Posters were also Presented
In parallel a poster even took place and over 80 posters were on display. Following judging, three posters were awarded prizes:
1st Prize: Carola Murphy, Gerard Moloney, Lindsay Hall, Aoife Quinlan, Emilie Faivre, Pat Casey, Fergus Shanahan, Silvia Melgar, Ken Nally. Development and characterisation of a novel in vivo model to trak neutrophil migration in experimental colitis using bioluminescence imaging.
2nd Prize: Murphy, M., Byrne, S. and Bradley, C. P. Does cash payment influence a GP's decision to prescribe antiobiotics?
3rd Prize: Una Leonard, Catherine Pettigrew, Nicola Bessell & Will Hutch. Syntatic Reactions: The effect of determiner-priming on visual mass noun recognition speeds.
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Incoming Interim Head of College, Prof Geraldine McCarthy, Prof Ivan Perry, Head of Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health and Prof Helen Whelton, Dean of the Graduate School attend the conference