03 Jul 2006

UCC Chemistry Researcher wins Major International Chromatography Prize



UCC Chemistry Researcher, Norma Scully, is the winner of a major international chromatography prize - The Horvaith Prize. The Csaba Horváth Memorial Award is awarded for the best lecture presentation by a scientist under the age of 35.  Norma's presentation titled 'Supercritical Fluid Generated Stationary Phases for Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrochromatography', was chosen for the award from 20 international Horvath Award nominees. The Prize was presented to Norma at the closing Plenary session of the International Symposium and Exhibition on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2006) in San Francisco.

Already an Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRSCET) Embark scholarship holder, this latest success follows Norma's 2005 AGB prize as the best Analytical Chemistry speaker at the 57th Irish Universities Research Colloquium, held at NUI Maynooth.  Norma is completing her PhD research in the Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS), UCC, in the Innovative Chromatography group, led by Professor Jeremy Glennon and Dr Liam Healy.

The Symposium is the largest meeting of its kind in the world and is dedicated to the needs and interests of analytical chemists, bio-chemists, molecular biologists and other practitioners of separations sciences. Symposium chairman John Frenz, stated that the meeting had grown over the years to become the largest meeting in the world dedicated to liquid phase separation science. Separations science he described as a dynamic, continually evolving discipline with a broad scope that comprises advances in all types of liquid phase separations from preparative and analytical chromatography to micro-fluidic techniques.

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