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2004 Gold Medal Award Recipient - Aoife McMahon (Nic Mhathúna)
2004 Gold Medal Award Recipient Aoife McMahon (Nic MhathĂșna)
Aoife Nic MhathĂșna graduated with a first class honours degree in Biochemistry in 2004 and was the first recipient of the Professor Art Champlin Gold Medal Award.
Aoife conducted a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in Molecular Neurobiology and investigated a transgenic mouse model of intellectual disability (McMahon et al, 2012) and collaborated on other aspects of neuronal synaptic signalling pathways (Martel et al, 2012; Baxter et al, 2011).