Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD has launched the new €22.2 million BEACON Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre, which is hosted at UCD, at the €5.75 million National Bioeconomy Campus in Lisheen, Co. Tipperary.

Zeeko, the Irish Edtech start-up headquartered at NovaUCD, HAS announced the launch of Appyness Online, a new and interactive Peer-to-Peer educational platform to transform the way internet safety is taught to primary school children in Ireland.

Carrick Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered at NovaUCD, has licensed exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialise BTG945, now CT900, an investigational targeted ovarian cancer drug, from the global specialist healthcare company BTG plc.

Initiative Ireland has announced the launch of Ireland’s largest peer-to-peer loan of €2.75 million, financed through its Secured Lending Community which will fund the construction of new family homes in Rush, County Dublin.