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  • Going to Extremes to find Greener ChemicalsPhoto: Dr Francesca Paradisi
    Dr Francesca Paradisi was interviewed by freelance journalist Dr Claire O'Connell based on her recent paper 'Characterization of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH12) from Haloarcula marismortui, an extreme halophile from the Dead Sea'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Dr Francesca Paradisi receives SFI Research Frontiers Programme fundingPhoto: Dr Francesca Paradisi
    Conway Fellow, Dr Francesca Paradisi of the UCD School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Centre for Synthesis & Chemical Biology has recently been awarded SFI Research Frontiers Programme funding.

    The Minister for Research & Innovation, Mr Seán Sherlock T.D. announced the Government funded awards to 79 research projects earlier this month. Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) will administer the scheme, which amounts to €15 million over the next four years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Forging ahead with metals to boost green energyPhoto: Professor Martin Albrecht and his team
    Professor Martin Albrecht and his team at the UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology are investigating at how using metals and their surroundings might help us generate clean, green energy.

 

 

 

 

  • Celtic Catalysts wins at The Irish Times’ InterTradeIreland awardsPhoto: Dr Graham Love of SFI and the Celtic Catalysts team
    The Irish Times’ InterTradeIreland awards were held during the week ended March 4th 2011. The research and development innovation award went to Celtic Catalysts and its work on developing catalysts that allow pharma firms to formulate drug molecules without unwanted or potentially harmful traits.

 

 

 

  • New 3-D visual of intestinal growth promoting peptide - Dr Chandral Hewage Image: Front Cover of FEBS Letters January 2011
    UCD Conway researchers have determined the 3-dimensional solution structure of glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) for the first time using nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular modelling. This visual was selected as the cover image of the current issue of the biochemical journal, FEBS Letters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • CSCB Symposium 'Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology IV'Photo: CSCB Sympoisum 2010 speakers and local organisers
    The CSCB held its ninth annual symposium, ‘Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology IX’, on Friday 10th December 2010, at the Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Over 170 delegates attended the one-day meeting at which six international speakers had been invited to attend and give plenary lectures. The scientific programme was organised by Professor Mathias Senge, Trinity College Dublin.

 

 

 

 

 

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