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Winter 2012 issue of 'Conway Focus' available

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Highlights in this issue include:

Benefits of Low GI Diet in Pregnancy
Research in BMJ by Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe has shown that women who choose a low glycaemic index (GI) diet from early pregnancy will reduce the likelihood of excessive gestational weight gain and maternal glucose intolerance.

Hierarchical model for evolution of genetic interactions
Research involving Dr Gerard Cagney in Molecular Cell compared the genetic architecture of two organisms separated by nearly 400 million years of evolution to reveal global trends that arguably exist in all eukaryotic species.

EU research effort to fight diabetes using oral nanomedicines
Professor David Brayden is deputy coordinator of a new EU FP7 funded multi-disciplinary consortium, Transint (oral nanomedicines) that aims to find more effective treatments for diseases such as diabetes.

2012 UCD Conway Festival of Research & Innovation
Doctoral candidate, Kate Byrne was awarded the 2012 UCD Conway Festival of Research & Innovation gold medal, sponsored by Roche for her research to develop a mathematical model describing the signalling network activity controlling cancer cell migration.