Forty eight of our BSc (Honours) Biochemistry students graduated at a ceremony on Monday, 24 October 2016. 

Elaine O'Brien graduated as top student, with a first class honours degree in Biochemistry and received the Art Champlin Gold Medal Award  in 2016. 

Shannon Quilty (4th year Biochemistry, UCC) received a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship and Grace O’Mahony (4th year Biomedical Science, UCC & CIT) received a HRB Summer Studentship Award to spend 8 weeks during the past summer in the research group of Dr Ken Nally, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and APC Microbiome Institute, UCC. 

Shona Cronin (4th year Genetics, UCC) received a 2016 Biochemical Society Summer Vacation Studentship to spend eight weeks in the research group of Dr Kellie Dean, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

A new Masters Programme in Entrepreneurial Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (MESBB) has just been launched in UCC.

Congratulations to the Fourth Year BSc in Biochemistry (Honours) students who completed their exams in May. 

A crucial event of immune system activation, in response to infections, is elicited by T-cells. The work has just been published online in the EMBO Journal and features as the cover image of the Journal’s current printed edition

The UCC Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society, as their charity event this academic year, ran two DNA workshops during Cork Science Festival week, in aid of Cork Penny Dinners. 

The annual Eli Lilly undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships for academic excellence were recently presented to students from this School at an event hosted by the UCC Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society on 2nd March last.‌

UCC MSc in Molecular Cell Biology student, Blaine Doyle, won the top prize of €20,000 investment for his company GlowDX under the ‘Best New Idea’ category at the finals of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition. Additionally he won €10,000 investment at his Local Enterprise Office competition on the way to the finals.