Dr. Katrin Kaschig graduated in November 2013 with her PhD entitled Zinc Finger Nuclease gene repair as a treatment for cystinosis. .

On 10th December 2013, Dr. Jennifer Hollwood successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled Cystic Fibrosis gene repair: Correction of ΔF508 using ZFN and CRISPR/Cas9 gRNA gene editing tools.

Dr Julie O Neill  successfully defended her  PhD thesis on the 12^th of December entitled ' The role played by Angiotensin (1-7) in the regulation of renal haemodynamics and renal excretory function in anesthetized rats.

Dr Niamh Goulding also successfully defended her  PhD thesis on the 20th of December. The title of Niamh's thesis is: 'Renal Failure and the Neurol Control of the Kidney.

Congratulations to Siobhan Rafferty and Alexandra Brito who were awarded the H.H. Stewart scholarship and 2nd prize in Physiology respectively at a recent awards event hosted by the National University of Ireland.The competition is open to medical students from the major institutions in Ireland. Siobhan and Alexandra were presented with scrolls by Professor Ken O'Halloran at the School of Medicine awards day recently...

Congratulations to Ms. Nora O'Donovan who was presented with an award for 35 years' service to UCC. Nora received her award from the Registrar, Prof. Paul Giller at a reception dinner hosted by UCC HR in the Aula Maxima. Prof. O'Halloran joined Nora and her husband at the awards night to celebrate this remarkable contribution to UCC and the Department of Physiology. Here's to many more years!

 Professor Johns  Primary research is the neuro-humoral control of the kidney and how it is deranged in renal and cardiovascular diseases.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673613619996

Professor Ken O’Halloran and 4 PhD students in his group are invited to the 13^th Sleep & Breathing International Symposium which takes place in Montreal Canada in October 2013. Five papers submitted by the group have been selected for oral communication at the conference. The studies explore cardiorespiratory remodelling in translational models of chronic sustained and intermittent hypoxia.

Dr Patrick Harrison has been awarded a research grant from CF trust UK for a one year study entitled 2nd generation Cystic fibrosis gene repair starting 1st October.

Together with his colleague Dr Martina Scanlon and three PhD students,their group was the first to correct the most common CF-causing mutation in the human cell line (Lee et al,2012)

Dr Jennifer Hollywood is also using a ground breaking technigue to advance their work known as CRISPR/Cas9 g RNA gene editing.  

Department of Physiology hosted a delegation form Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow, Poland.

‌An image from a research study from Prof. O'Halloran's group was published on the front cover of the September issue of the journal Experimental Physiology.The cover image can be seen here: http://ep.physoc.org/content/98/9.cover-expansion

Congratulations to Louise O'Sullivan (Physiology Class of 2013) on being Highly Commended in the 2013 Undergraduate Awards. Louise's submission, under the supervision of Dr. Dervla O'Malley, was ranked in the top 10% of students around the world! 

Congratulations to Limian Zheng pictured here with her Supervisor Dr John Mackrill  at the recent summer conferrings where she was awarded her PhD.

The Department of Physiology hosted an awards event at the close of the academic year on the evening of the viva voce examinations in Physiology. Professor Ken O’Halloran (Head of Department) congratulated the class on a magnificent performance in the final year examinations.

The Department of Physiology, UCC is hosting a symposium to mark the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the birth of Claude Bernard.

SECTION OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES - Annual Meeting 2013, Including Donegan Medal and Barcroft Medal Competitions & Conway Review Lecture

Dr. Maria Buckley's paper was awarded a distinction ahead of the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) international conference which will be held in Orlando, Florida from May 18th to May 21st.

Stephen Dineen retired from the Physiology Department recently after 44years service.

Please click on the link below for an interview with Professor Ken O Halloran.