Dr. Ger McGlacken has been elected as Vice-Chair of COST action (C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS), having contributed to its submission.

A Cork-based company is working with the pharmaceutical industry to make tablets tastier and easier to swallow.

The Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton, TD together with the Minister for Research, Innovation and Skills, Damien English, TD today announced details of a €28 million investment in research equipment and facilities through Science Foundation Ireland. 

As we draw towards the celebrations of New Years eve, Patrick McCaw and Aoife Buckley, Research Council scholars at UCC give us an insight into the science of fireworks...

Well done to everyone involved in the recent NRM in Process Chemistry meeting, in partnership with Bruker and the SSPC. The workshop took place in the Cavanagh Pharmacy building on the 4th December and was very well attended, with people travelling from several locations to listen to the speakers and join in the panel discussion.

The SSPC, in conjunction with Bruker Biospin and the ABCRF, invites you to a technical meeting on recent advances and applications of NMR spectroscopy to in situ reaction monitoring and characterisation. 

A molecule developed by scientists at UCC, derived from the berries of the Bloodhorn tree, has shown “a very significant reduction in tumour size,” particularly leukaemia cancer cells.

Patrick Vallance, Head of R&D in GlaxoSmithKline was recently interviewed by BBC radio 4.  Prior to joining GSK ,Patrick was Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Medicine at University College London. 

‌Congratulations to Kevin O’Shea who was the winner of this year’s Eli Lilly Symposium, which took place on Friday 25th September. 

ABCRF PI's Prof Dmitri Papkovsky and Dr Ruslan Dmitriev have had their article entitled Versatile Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for High-Resolution O₂ Imaging in Cells and 3D Tissue Models published in ACS Nano.