A summer vacation placement information seminar was held by the Biochemistry & Biotechnology and Biomedical Science societies on Wednesday 2nd December 2020.

On Thursday 19 November 2020 we celebrated the conferring of our BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, Biomedical Science, Biotechnology and Genetics students, and also, our PhD students.

MSc Biotechnology students Sarah Hannon, Alice Kenrick and Ian O’Shea were presented with the “Regeneron Ireland College Awards” on 19th November 2020.

The Professor Art Champlin Gold Medal Award for academic excellence in Biochemistry was won in 2020 by Niamh Casey.

In 2019, James graduated from University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology with a first-class honours degree in Biomedical Science.

A research article from the School was published in the prestigious journal Science Signaling and is also featured in a focus article and on the journal cover.

Congratulations to our 4th year BSc Biochemistry students who received their degree results today. 

School of Biochemistry staff member Dr Anne Moore talks to RTE's Sean O'Rourke on radio, and on television to Anne Cassin on RTE's Nationwide, about the Coronavirus. 

The direct links to three interviews are below.

BCL-G, a hitherto ‘orphan’ member of the BCL-2 protein family of cell death regulators, regulates inflammatory responses and not cell death in dying intestinal epithelial cells – finds a study led by Dr Ken Nally and published recently in Cell Death & Disease.

This year, five scholarships were available to UCC students, one of which was awarded to our final year Biochemistry student Natasha Steidel.