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  • CESAR Prize for Translational Anticancer Research awarded to Matthias TackePhoto: (L-R) Prof M. E. Scheulen, Dr M. Tacke, Prof U. Jaehde
    The CESAR Prize 2009 for Translational Anticancer Research was awarded to Dr Matthias Tacke during the CESAR Autumn Symposium, which was held from October 29-31, 2009 in Heidelberg at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in order to celebrate 10 years of CESAR's (Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research) activities.

 

 

 

 

  • CSCB student wins at 61st Chemistry ColloquiumAnja being awarded her prize
    Anja Glinschert, a PhD student with Professor Stefan Oscarson of the CSCB, won best oral presentation at the 61st Annual Chemistry Colloquium, held at DIT on June 17-19, for her talk entitled 'Synthesis and Interaction Studies of Mannose Gold Nanoparticles with the E. coli Lectin FimH ’.

 

 

  • Inaugural NMR MeetingPhoto: Dr Hugh Brady, Professor Richard Ernst, Dr Chandral Hewage
    The inaugural Irish NMR Meeting, organised by CSCB and UCD Conway fellow Dr Chandralal Hewage, took place on 7th May 2009 at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. The aim of this meeting was to provide an opportunity for scientists working with NMR in Ireland to get together to discuss recent advances in the field of NMR technology. Biological NMR has played a major role at UCD for more than two decades and Structural Biology is now one of the main thematic research areas of the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at UCD.

 

  • AccesScience '09 FinalPhoto: Sabrina with Dr Jimmy Devins (left) and Dr Hugh Brady
    Sabrina Devereux, a 3rd year PhD student with Dr Francesca Paradisi of the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD Conway Institute and UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, came 2nd overall in this year's AccesScience final with her talk entitled “What a Waste???”. Sabrina’s work centres on finding ways to deal with the 91,000 tonnes of solid waste generated from prepared potatoes in Ireland each year; enough to fill 1,200 Boeing 737 airplanes. The audience vote judged Sabrina best out of the 7 speakers.

 

  • AccesScience ’09 – CSCB Internal HeatPhoto: Judges with Sabrina Devereux
    The CSCB internal heat for AccesScience ’09 was held on 20th February 2009 in the CSCB Seminar Room. The winner of the heat was Sabrina Devereux, a PhD researcher with Dr Francesca Paradisi, CSCB and UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with her talk entitled "What a waste???" Sabrina will go on to represent the CSCB at the AccesScience ’09 final in O’Reilly Hall on 26th March.

 

  • CSCB Symposium2008 symposium speakers
    The 7th annual Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology symposium, ‘Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VII’ was held in the Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin on Friday 12th December 2008. The meeting was opened by Dr Philip Nolan, Registrar, University College Dublin and the speakers were Professor Frank Schroeder, Cornell University, USA; Dr John Brown, University of Oxford, UK; Professors Bernard Meunier, PALUMED, France; Sabine Flitsch, University of Manchester, UK; John Wood, Colorado State University, USA and Matthew Shair, Harvard University, USA. The scientific programme was organised by Professor Pat Guiry, CSCB.

 

 

 

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  • October 14 "Frontiers in Organic Chemistry"
    The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast is pleased to host a ½ day RSC award symposium entitled "Frontiers in Organic Chemistry" on Wednesday 14th Oct 2009.