The day was structured around 4 themes, each with a Keynote Speaker and three research presentations. The themes and keynote speakers were:
From each theme, a winning presentation was chosen by the keynote speakers and the presenter was awarded the Michael C Berndt Gold Medal for Research Innovation. The Gold Medal Winners were Ciara O’ Toole, Dept of Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCC (Measuring Bilingual language acquisition ); Martin O’Neill, School of Pharmacy, UCC (Cyclodextrin mediated gene delivery to the intestine- predicting cellular uptake pathways and transfection complex stability); Andrew Coveney, Dept of Academic Surgery, CUH (Unravelling a novel role of myeloid-related proteins Mrp8/14 in self-tolerance and cross tolerance to Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria) and Dr Declan Mc Kernan, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, UCC (Altered Toll Like Receptor responses in Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
A parallel poster event took place and over 80 posters were on display. Following judging, three posters were awarded prizes:
1st Prize: Carola Murphy, Gerard Moloney, Lindsay Hall, Aoife Quinlan, Emilie
Faivre, Pat Casey, Fergus Shanahan, Silvia Melgar and Ken Nally. Development and characterisation of a novel
in vivo model to track neutrophil migration in experimental colitis using
bioluminescence imaging.
2nd Prize: Murphy, M., Byrne, S. and Bradley, C.P.
Does cash payment
influence a GP’s decision to prescribe antibiotics?
3rd Prize: Una Leonard, Catherine Pettigrew, Nicola Bessell and Will Hutch. Syntactic Reactions: The effect of
determiner-priming on visual mass noun recognition speeds.
The College of Medicine and Health gratefully acknowledges the support of our conference sponsors Pfizer Corporation, Cruinn Diagnostics, Miltenyi Biotec, BD and Caliper LifeSciences.
All abstracts are available on the following website links:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/CollegesandDepartments/MedicineandHealth/news/
Picture: One of the four gold medal winners, Andrew Coveney, being presented with the Michael C Berndt Gold Medal for Research Innovation at the Molecules to Medicine research Conference in Brookfield. L-R: Dr. Simon Draper, Andrew Coveney and Professor Michael Berndt, Head, College of Medicine & Health.
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