On November 12th, 46 transition year students from Presentation College, Cork, visited the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology for a DNA workshop filled with valuable content and learning opportunities. 

The Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society at UCC hosted an MSc Biotechnology information seminar on Tuesday, November 19th which was attended by over 50 undergraduate students. 

Congratulations to Aideen McCabe, PhD student at the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, who won the 2024 Irish Universities Association Three Minute Thesis National Final!

The Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society UCC are hosting an MSc Biotechnology information seminar on Tuesday 19th November at 6.00 pm in WGB G03.

The BSc Biomedical Science class of 2024 were conferred with their degree at a joint UCC-MTU conferring ceremony on Wednesday, 6^th November, hosted by UCC. 

Congratulations to our BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Genetics students who were conferred on Monday 4th November. 

Huge congratulations to our PhD student Aideen McCabe, under the supervision of Dr Kellie Dean, who was chosen as the winner of UCC’s 2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition.

The School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology are delighted to announce that University College Cork, Rau Consulting and Bio Pharma Technical Consulting have be selected as a finalist in the ‘Talent Acceleration’ category at the Biotech Week Boston (BWB) Awards 2024, for our Springboard+ and HCI-funded Postgraduate Course in Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy.

Professor Pavel (Pasha) Baranov, a world leading researcher in Biomolecular Informatics in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UCC, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) for his outstanding research contributions to genetic decoding and mRNA (messenger RNA) translation.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Professor Elena Matsa to the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC, following the recent announcement and launch of our strategic collaboration with NIBRT (National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training).