School of Chemical and BioPharmaceutical Sciences TU Dublin

23/12/2023

01/12/2023

To celebrate the WHO's World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, the WAAW23 conference took place in Maynooth University on November 23rd last, with our own Dr Fintan Kelleher delivering a keynote address. In addition to this, our PhD student Mairéad Gallagher (supervised by Dr Kelleher and Dr Gordon Cooke) won Best Overall Poster Presentation at the event. Well done to Fintan, Gordon and Mairéad for representing the school so well!
Pictured below are Dr Fintan Kelleher and Mairéad Gallagher with Professor Paul Moynagh of Maynooth University, Director of the Lonsdale Institute.

14/11/2023

Our TU762/2 students were delighted to host 5th and 6th class pupils from George’s Hill Primary School in the Central Quad last month! Our second years worked very hard to prepare a variety of activities which gave our visitors plenty of hands-on experience in the laboratory. Well done everyone!

15/06/2022

It was lovely to see our fantastic TU852 Chemical Sciences with Medicinal Chemistry & TU851 Analytical Chemistry final year students again today when they were in to meet the external examiners. Congratulations everyone and best wishes for your bright futures!

14/05/2022

It was so lovely to see some of our 2020 and 2021 graduates in the Central Quad today. A huge thank you to everyone who came along!! It was really great for us to hear all about the exciting things you’ve been up to since graduation!

12/05/2022

We had such a great day on Monday last, hearing all about the fantastic research being carried out by our postgraduate students across our Tallaght and City Campuses. Well done to everyone involved in organising the event and congratulations to all of the prizewinners!

12/05/2022

Congratulations to our own Dr Elaine Harris who has been appointed as a Funded Investigator with CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices. The Centre will become a global leader in the creation and translation of clinic-ready and patient-focused medical devices. It will develop the next generation of industry-relevant, publicly engaged researchers and become an anchor for industry applicable research.

Elaine’s research will focus on supporting the development of regulatory strategies arising from the outputs of research in the areas of biomaterials, drug delivery, regenerative medicine, bioengineering and glycobiology.

29/04/2022

We were delighted that our fantastic DT203 (Forensic & Environmental Chemistry), DT261 (Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences) and DT299 (Chemical Sciences with Medicinal Chemistry) graduates from 2021 got to have their face to face graduation celebration earlier this week. It was so nice to catch up with everyone who was able to attend. Congratulations!

27/04/2022

Many thanks to Lori Keeve and Padraic Ballantyne from the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) who came to speak to our second year TU762 students about the sustainability aspects of the Grangegorman campus. This session was organised by Dr Patrice Behan and Dr Eoin McGillicuddy.

26/04/2022

It was such a privilege to host pupils from St Mary’s Primary School and Stanhope Street Primary School today. Well done to our TU851 and TU852 1st year students on all their hard work and enthusiasm in preparing their activities and demonstrations. A great day was had by everyone!!
Special thanks to our staff Dr Sarah Rawe and Dr Ziga Ude for organising the event, as well as to Mr Ian Roller from TU Dublin’s Access and Civic Engagement office for his support.

13/04/2022

Best of luck to Kezia Bega, a graduate of our MSc in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Regulation (TU258), as she presents her dissertation research at the STEMBA 2022 conference this Friday 15th April. See https://bit.ly/379aFFn for registration and details of the event.

11/04/2022

Congratulations to all of our award winners. We were delighted to be able to host you, your friends and family, in the beautiful surroundings of St Laurence's Grangegorman.