2013 Press Releases

UCC student wins biotech challenge

10 Sep 2013
The winning team. Stephen Fahy is pictured far right (Photo by Roland Schmid)

A team that includes UCC student Stephen Fahy, who hails from Douglas, Cork has won the prestigious Novartis Biocamp in Basel.

60 talented science students from 40 universities across 21 countries and territories attended the three-day exploration of some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in the biotech and healthcare industries, held on 25 August 2013 in Switzerland.

Stephen, a final-year Process and Chemical Engineering student in UCC was one of two students selected by Novartis Ringaskiddy to attend the Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Camp 2013. William Byrne, a PhD Scholar with Cork Cancer Research Centre was also selected to take part.

The program of seminars, workshops and presentations, as well as input from Nobel Laureate Dr. Rolf M. Zinkernagel, gave the students a thorough overview of the life sciences industry, enabling them to think like entrepreneurs and understand the challenges faced in bringing medicines to market that benefit patients. Stephen’s team presented the best concept for a new hypothetical biotech company at the end of the three days.

This is the first time Novartis in Ireland has entered the BioCamp programme and it is an initiative Novartis Ringaskiddy hopes to build on in the future.

See more information at: http://www.novartis.com/careers/biocamp/

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