On 20 March 2026, the CBT lab hosted a bake sale in support of Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day. The event was organised by ICS funded researchers Kate Duffy and Jay Campbell and brought together members of the UCD Conway Institute community in a shared effort to support cancer research and patient services. Thanks to …
The CBT group was exceptionally well represented at the Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) 2026 conference, recently held in Galway. The meeting brought together over 300 cancer researchers from across Ireland alongside leading national and international speakers, and CBT members made a strong impact across the programme. Senior representation was evident throughout, with Maria …
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Last year the Irish Cancer Society were delighted and proud to partner with the Irish Association for Cancer Research to co-fund two PhD Scholarships. One of which was Kate Duffy member of the CBT Lab. Kate is an esteemed awardee of the Irish Cancer Society and Irish Association for Cancer Research PhD Scholarship awardees. Her project …
PhD student, Claire Hughes won the science communication competition ENGAGE2024, an annual competition by UCD’s School of Biomolecular and BiomedicalScience, where late-stage PhDs present their work to a public audience. Claire’spresentation was entitled ‘Undercover Allies: Cannabis Enhances Chemotherapy’sSiege on Ovarian Cancer’. Claire’s research is supervised by Assoc. Prof. AntoinettePerry and Dr Susanne Schilling. Further details …
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CBT lab members have raised over €5,000 for the Irish Cancer Society by running the College of Science and BioSoc bake sale and raffle. This was the third consecutive year that the O’Brien Centre for Science has hosted the event, which has raised amounts of €1,582 (2024) €1,862 (2023) and €1,751 (2022) for the Irish …
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CBT lab researchers and PPI members were awarded the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Achievement of the Year Award at the 2024 Irish Cancer Society Research Awards. The project “Broadening Patient Involvement in Ovarian Cancer Research” ensures the patient voice is incorporated into the ovarian cancer research conducted in the lab. The researchers include Claire …
Haleema Azam from the Prencipe’s team successfully defended her PhD work titled ‘Investigating the common molecular networks of the Androgen Receptor and Serum Response Factor pathways in castrate resistant prostate cancer’ on the 15th of January 2024. Many thanks to the examiners, Prof. Antoinette Perry (UCD) and Prof. Marianna Kruithof-de julio (University of Bern).
Final year PhD student, Haleema Azam, was among the finalists for the Gold Medal at the 20th anniversary of the Conway Research festival on the 20th of October 2023. Haleema presented her work on investigating the interactome of the androgen receptor and serum response factor in advanced prostate cancer to generate a pipeline of future …
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Congratulation to the team of Dr Antoinette Perry, Asia Jordan, Adele Connor and Ross Nelson for their success in the midst of very steep competition in winning the UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Award for epiCaPture. Antoinette and her team have developed a novel urine DNA test for aggressive prostate cancer. Its tumor specificity out-performs that …
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Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s suicide. The annual fund-raising activities spearheaded by the Prof. Bill Watson and Amanda O’Neill to raise awareness of men’s Health issues went virtual this year with Prof. William Gallagher …
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