Congratulations to Olive Cosgrave recipient of a Staff Citizenship Award and Jenny Duane recipient of a Student-nominated Staff Award at the annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) STEM Awards Ceremony on 16 May 2023.

The Eli Lilly Awards for Academic Excellence in Biochemistry and Biotechnology were held on Wednesday 22nd March.

• Applications open for seven new academic positions at UCC.
• Closing date for applications is 12pm (Irish Standard Time) on Thursday, 22 June 2023.

UCC Innovation in collaboration with the College of Science, Engineering and Food Sciences (SEFS) has launched a new digital badge in Innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) for Scientists and Engineers.

Professor Marcus Claesson initiated the information evening session with the MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

AIVRT brings together researchers from QUB, UCD, TCD and UCC in an ambitious four year alliance to better human health through vaccination and to train the next generation of all-island researchers in vaccine design, development, testing and deployment research.

Congratulations to Professor John Atkins, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, who has been recognised at the Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year Awards.

UCC's Eli Lilly PhD Scholars and staff from the School of Engineering and Architecture recently visited Eli Lilly at their Dunderrow site in recognition of the pharmaceutical company’s contribution to the university over the years.

On Tuesday the 22nd of November, the Biochemistry and Biotechnology held an information seminar regarding UCC’s MSc Biotechnology programme.

Congratulations to Professor Rosemary who completed 25 years’ service at UCC.

The Biochemistry Graduate Studies Committee and the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society UCC hosted a research seminar on Tuesday 15th November. Science undergraduate and postgraduate MSc students were invited to attend.

A report of the day of science in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology as experienced by one of the TY students, Sam Hernan. Thank you for your article, Sam!

On Tuesday 1st of November, the Biochemistry & Biotechnology society held a summer placement information seminar.

The Professor Art Champlin Gold Medal Award for academic excellence in Biochemistry, was presented to Donagh Gribbon by Professor John O’Halloran, President, UCC, and Professor Justin McCarthy, Head of School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC on the 26th October 2022.

The BSc Biochemistry, BSc Biotechnology and BSc Genetics conferring ceremony was held on 26 October 2022.

The joint UCC-MTU conferring ceremony for the BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science class was held in UCC on Friday 14 October.

Dr Patrick Leonard together with his wife Glenda, and twin sister Sr Emmanuel, returned after 66 years after his graduation to visit the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology on Tuesday 11 October. 

We are delighted to welcome Dr Pedro Tetteroo to the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology as an Adjunct Professor.

The Biophysics and Bioanalysis has successfully advanced its research projects, particularly the SFI and IPIC (Irish Photonics Integration Research Centre) projects in the area of Biophotonics and sensors.

Traditional laboratory classes in science subjects require mobility, the use of both hands, fine motor control and good eyesight. This makes it very challenging for students with physical disabilities or visual impairments to complete practical classes. In fact, it may put such students off choosing STEM subjects in university in the first place.

We are delighted to welcome two new Academic staff, Dr Katja Burk and Dr Martina Yordanova to the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology both of whom have been appointed as Lecturers. 

We are delighted to welcome Dr Alexander Zhdanov to the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology team as our new Technical Officer.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Carolyn O’Driscoll to the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology team as our new Programme Co-ordinator, Higher Diploma in Design and Manufacture of Biopharmaceuticals.

After a two-year gap, a University of California (UC) Davis Summer Abroad program, led by Dr Kellie Dean, returned to UCC from 21 June – 27 July 2022.

Congratulations to Mark Leahy, BSc (Hons) Medical and Health Sciences, for being awarded the Irish Cancer Society Translational Summer Studentship 2022.

Dr Kellie Dean was successful in obtaining funding from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) – German Academic Exchange Service for a research stay at EMBL-Heidelberg to work in the Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility.

The School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology recently held a School Values and Culture Awareness and Training Day that was attended by staff and researchers.

Congratulations to Yvonne Brennan, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology staff member who was presented with a Student-nominated Staff Award at the annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) STEM Awards Ceremony.

Three members of the Dean lab, Dr Kellie Dean, John Fehilly (MRes student) and Olivia Carey (MSc by research student) attended the EMBO-EMBL Symposium: “Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation,” in Heidelberg, Germany, from the 9 – 12 May 2022.

Congratulations to School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology staff who received research grants through the SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme valued at €2.3 million.

Congratulations to Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, who has been appointed to the Life and Medical Sciences multidisciplinary committee of the Royal Irish Academy.

Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, named as leading member of the Government’s new Covid-19 Advisory Group.

The IACR hosted their annual conference in The Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Co Cork.

To honour the contribution of Professor John Atkins, a family of newly discovered viruses, Atkinsviridae, has been named after Professor John Atkins (1944–present) for his discovery of the lysin protein from Escherichia virus MS2 [Atkins JF. et al., Cell. 1979; 18:247–256] PubMed.

The Eli Lilly Awards ceremony for Academic Excellence in Biochemistry and Biotechnology was held in-person on Wed 23rd March 2022.

Congratulations to Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, recent funding success under the Shared Island North-South Research Programme.

On Tuesday 25th of January, the UCC Biochemistry and Biotechnology Society held an information seminar on MSc Programmes in UCC. 

Congratulations to Jennifer McCarthy, who attained a  WiSTEM²D Johnshon & Johnson Scholarship.