The Transition Year programme in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology is a very well-structured and organised programme. It showed us all the different aspects of the job that biochemists must do on a daily basis. The programme had great diversity from DNA testing to pH and buffer analysis. 

Professor Tom Cotter has worked in Biochemistry since 1995, when he was appointed as Chair and Head of Biochemistry.

The annual Eli Lilly undergraduate and postgraduate awards for academic excellence were held on Tuesday 26th February. The students who achieved the highest grades in the MSc Biotechnology programme and in the undergraduate Biochemistry programme were presented with their award by Dr Deirdre Buckley, TSMS Team Leader at Eli Lilly.

Dr Anne Moore was honoured to attend a reception hosted by Uachtaráin na hEireann, Dr Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins to celebrate International Womens’ Day “Women In The Sciences”  at Áras an Uachtaráin on Friday, 8th March, 2019.

RNA Worlds: New Tools for Deep Exploration. eds. T.R. Cech, J.A. Steitz, J.F. Atkins.  559 pages. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

The contents of individual chapters to be published in the journal “Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives”.

Regeneron, in collaboration with University College Cork, has announced its new “Regeneron Ireland College Awards”.

The Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society UCC hosted an information seminar on MSc Programmes at UCC in the Life Science area on Tuesday, 22 January 2019.

• €73.22 million funding secured for Ireland, Northern Ireland and United States of America research collaborations
• 49 R&D projects approved in last 12 years
• Latest phase focuses on agri-food challenges with €1million issued to 3 successful projects

Tuesday evening November 6th, saw the UCC Biochemistry and Biotechnology’s sole breakout event of the year – a riveting postgraduate seminar, hosted by our chairs Claire Cronin and Maeve O’ Sullivan.

For me, putting in all that hard work and effort throughout my four years as an undergrad, was so well worth it! Read more of Róisín’s story below...