Ryan Kruschel Wins Best Flash Presentation Prize at the 71st Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium

16 Jul 2019

School of Chemistry PhD student Ryan Kruschel won a 'Best Flash Presentation' prize at the 71st Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium.

The colloquium was recently hosted by The School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TU Dublin, in association with the Department of Chemistry of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). It provides an opportunity for the chemistry research community, particularly postgraduates, within Ireland’s third level sector to disseminate their work either by an oral or poster presentation as well as a forum for networking and developing collaborations. Oral presentations, flash talks and posters were contributed by postgraduates from each of the 10 universities on the island and from 3 Institutes of Technology. This year's theme was sustainability, and the event took place on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st June.

The invited plenary speakers were Prof. Luuk van der Wielen, Director, Bernal Institute and Chair of Biosystems Engineering & Design, University of Limerick, who spoke about recycling and Dr. Francesca Paradisi, Professor in Pharmaceutical and Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Bern, who discussed her work on biocatalysis and flow chemistry, which allows more sustainable reactions.

In total, 10 postgraduate students from the School of Chemistry made oral, flash or poster presentations. Ryan's prize winning flash presentation was entitled 'Synthesis of Isoquinolinequinone N-oxides as Anticancer Agents'.