Congratulations Professor Gerard O’Keeffe, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience who has been elected Fellow of the Anatomical Society, and has also been awarded the Anatomical Society New Fellow of the Year Award.

We are saddened to announce the death of Mr Donal Harris, formerly of the Department of Anatomy. Donal was very well known and respected by his colleagues across the University and by the many generations of medical and dental students, and medical demonstrators, whom he encountered in his more than 30 years in the Department of Anatomy. In his work and his dealings with the families of the many anatomical donors to UCC, Donal will be remembered as a warm and supportive professional.

Congratulations to Ms Carrie O’Flynn, who was conferred with an MSc Human Anatomy at the UCC Medicine and Health conferring ceremony in June 2022.

Congratulations to Dr Mutahria Lone, who was conferred with an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the UCC College of Medicine and Health, Spring Conferring Ceremony on Wednesday 13th April 2022.

Congratulations to the MSc Human Anatomy class of 2020 who graduated at the College of Medicine and Health Autumn graduation ceremony on November 18th 2020.

In an article in today's Irish Examiner, poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa chats about her decision to donate her body to the Anatomical Donation Programme in the Department of Anatomy UCC. Professor of Anatomy John F. Cryan and Professor Aideen Sullivan Head of Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience explain the UCC donation programme.

Dr André  Toulouse, a Lecturer of Anatomy and Principal Investigator in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, was nominated for this award by one of his many students in Medicine, Dentistry, Clinical Therapies, Neuroscience and Research Programmes for his outstanding teaching skills and ongoing dedication and support to his students.

Now in its third year, the MSc Human Anatomy has become a very popular MSc degree in UCC. Course director Dr Siobhain O'Mahony and course cordinator Dr Mutahira Lone met with prospective students at the recent UCC Postgraduate Open Day in the Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn on January 28th 2020.

Congratulations to the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience MSc Human Anatomy graduates who were conferred at the recent conferring ceremony.

The Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience is now accepting applications for the forthcoming Anatomy and Neuroscience for Transition Year Students course which will run from Monday 27th to Thursday 30th April 2020.

Congratulations to the first graduates of the new MSc in Human Anatomy who were conferred with their Master Degrees in UCC last friday. This first taught MSc in Human Anatomy in the Republic of Ireland was developed by Dr Siobhain O'Mahony and Dr Joy Balta, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, UCC.

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience hosted its fourth Thanksgiving Service in memory of the people who donated their bodies for medical research. An important date in the Calender of the College of Medicine & Health at UCC, the Thanksgiving Service was held in the Honan Chapel UCC on Monday February 19th 2018. The service is a non-denominational celebration of the lives of all donors and especially of those donors who were part of the donation programme in the past two years.

In 2013, the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience launched its AN3000 – Advanced Anatomical Skills module to complement its anatomy teaching to medical students. The course, offered as a student-selected module, allows students to appreciate Anatomy in a non-pressurised manner and is ideal for students with an interest in surgery, radiology or other anatomically-oriented disciplines of medicine.

The FLAME lab are delighted to welcome new Technical Officer Wayne Sheehan to their team.  Having worked in a variety of careers to date Wayne is looking forward to his new position in the department.

The inaugural one day ' Focused Plastic Surgery Trauma Course'  was held in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience's FLAME laboratory on Saturday 27th May 2017. The course was attended by trainee plastic surgery and orthopaedic surgeons from all over Ireland and Europe with a special interest in trauma.

The Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience is delighted to announce the launch of its new 12 month taught MSc degree in Human Anatomy.

In an initiative supported by the American Association of Anatomists, Dr Joy Balta was invited by Dr. James Pickering from the University of Leeds to take part in a series of podcasts in which Anatomy teachers from around the world share their views and research in anatomical education.

The Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience will host Transition Year students for a 5 day course exploring the structure and function of the human body at multiple levels. The course will take place April 30^th – May 4^th 2018. Places are limited.

Having already dedicated the month of November to taking part in 'Movember' a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health, senior medical demonstrators Dr Johnny O'Mahony and Dr Muhammad Asim Javaid joined by Dr Gilliard Lach post doctoral researcer, demonstrated their organisational and baking skills by hosting a 'Bake Sale' in aid of the Irish Cancer Society and Mental Health Charities in the Western Gateway building on Friday 25th November.

Europe’s long-term lending institution, the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a €100 million loan agreement with University College Cork on  Friday 25^th November 2016 ensuring the continuation and completion of the transformation of the Windle Building into a state of the art student hub. The Windle Building which had until 2011 been home to the Department of Anatomy, has since the summer begun a seismic transformation into the ‘Student Hub Project’.

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience welcomed European Commissioner Carlos Moedas to the FLAME laboratory on Friday 4th November, where staff and students showcased department research and teaching activities.

The Department welcomes Erasmus programme anatomy prosector interns Bérénice Hohl and Alina Schneider, both graduates from the University of Bochum, Germany.

Mutahira Lone and Joy Balta Senior Medical Demonstrators in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience have been granted travel awards from the American Association of Anatomists to present their research at the  Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience is hosting its third Thanksgiving Service in memory of the people who have donated their bodies for medical research.

An article by David Derbyshire a freelance science journalist based in Winchester, UK  published in The Guardian newspaper today, explores why people leave their bodies to medical research – and what happens.

Another successful Prep-for-Med took place in UCC College of Medicine last week - Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience FLAME lab senior demonstrators Joy Balta and Ahmad Hassan Sheikh take time out to chat with Irish Examiner reporter.

Professor Turlough FitzGerald, a leading Irish anatomist and former anatomy lecturer in the Department of Anatomy University College Cork, died in September 2014.

An educational and fun day took place in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience’s FLAME lab on Sunday 9^th of November, as part of Science week Family Open Day, which was held in the Western Gateway building.

There is a whole load of fun, and lots of interesting things happening in Cork to Celebrate Science week.

 ‘1514 - 2014 The Legacy of Andreas Vesalius Symposium & Art Exhibition'  took place on Tuesday 21^st October 2014 at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC.

A Thanksgiving Ceremony hosted by the Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience in association with the School of Medicine, took place on Wednesday 12th March 2014.

The teaching staff and students on completion of the module. Pictured from left Dr. André Toulouse, module coordinator; students Muhammad Danial Adnan, Maria O’Callaghan, Cillian Lineen, and Charles Leahy; and Mr Michael Cronin (Technical Director of FLAME Lab) and Ms Margaret Arnold (Senior Technical Officer, FLAME Lab).

Picture: Dr Sobia Hashmi, Senior Medical Demonstrator teaching neuroanatomy to Second Year Graduate Entry Medical Students in the old Anatomy Dissection Room in the Windle Building.

Teaching of Anatomy in UCC’s Windle Building has come to an end with the Department’s move to its new state of the art laboratories in the Western Gate Building.