OxyMem Ltd, a University College Dublin spin-out company, was last night declared winner of the overall ‘Innovation of the Year’ Award at the 2014 Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards.

Six early-stage start-ups being established by University College Dublin students have been awarded a combined total of just over €15,500 through the new UCD Student Innovation Fund.

University College Dublin is constructing a new dairy research and education facility at UCD Lyons Research Farm to support research programmes in dairy production including genetics, nutrition and herd health management.

The winners of the 2014 BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp, an intensive four-day commercialisation skills programme held at NovaUCD, have been announced.