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Celebrating Academic Excellence at the Eli Lilly Awards 2025

The Eli Lilly Awards for Academic Excellence in Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2025 were held on Wednesday, 19th March.
Congratulations to the recipients:
- Ms. Eilís O'Donoghue, Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding performance in second year Biochemistry
- Ms. Iris Carvahlo, Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding performance in third year Biochemistry
- Ms. Ava O’Leary, (BSc Genetics) Eli Lilly Postgraduate Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding performance in MSc Biotechnology
The awards ceremony was compered by Professor Tommie McCarthy, outgoing Director of the MSc in Biotechnology programme and the recipients were presented with their awards by Elaine O’Brien, Upstream Senior Scientist-TS/MS, Eli Lilly and Dr Deirdre Buckley Sr. Director of Biotech TS/MS at Eli Lilly and Gary Kirby, Sr. Lead - Personnel Representative Eli Lilly.
The staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology would like to thank Eli Lilly for sponsoring these academic awards and for their continued support.