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Nine students from UCC were the first Irish team to participate in a prestigious synthetic biology competition held in Boston, USA from Oct 31st – Nov 3rd.  The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition saw 245 teams from leading universities all over the world compete based on a synthetic biology research projects conducted over the summer.

Professor John Atkins, SFI Research Professor in our School, and Dr Pasha Baranov, College Lecturer in our School, received the Research Team of the Year Award from the President, Dr Michael Murphy, at the University Staff Awards ceremony held in the Aula Maxima on Thursday 9th October last. 

Three students from the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology were awarded PhD degrees at the Autumn  Conferring ceremony held at UCC on October 29th last. 

Forty of our 2014 BSc (Hons) Biochemistry students graduated at a ceremony on Tuesday, 28th October. 

The Professor Art Champlin Gold medal award for academic excellence in Biochemistry, was presented to Fergus Collins on October 28th by Professor David Sheehan of this School. 

It has been an exciting time for Dr Meghan Coakley, a recent PhD graduate from Dr Cora O’ Neill’s lab in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 

UCC Leads the Way in Synthetic Biology- Students awarded venture capital to form SynBio start-up and compete in international competition.