Congratulations to Alex for her successful travel bursary application to attend the Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference in Italy. The focus of this conference is on newly emerging aspects of the field including the genetic heterogeneity of cancer, the “long tail” of less frequent cancer mutations and the importance of intratumoural heterogeneity as …
To mark World Cancer Day, five secondary school and community choirs combined to highlight cancer awareness at a unique choral event in University College Dublin with the help of Irish singer/songwriter Don Mescall. The event was organised by Professor William Gallagher, Luciana Herda (CBT lab) and Colette Kearney (Biology Teacher in Mount Sion CBS) with CBT …
On Daffodil Day, thousands of volunteers take to the streets selling flowers and daffodil pins to raise monies for the Irish Cancer Society. Daffodil day was launched on Feb. 1st 2019 with BREAST-PREDICT an Irish Cancer Society Collaborative Research Centre represented by CBT lab members Dr. Arman Rahman and Emer Conroy
Congratulations to PhD student Flavia Genua who has been awarded € 1300 under COST Action CA17118 Identifying Biomarkers Through Translational Research for Prevention and Stratification of Colorectal Cancer (TRANSCOLONCAN.Eu) for a three – week STSM (short term scientific mission …EU speak) to the lab of Dr Alessio Naccarati Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine , Turin, …
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The CBT lab entered the Conway Christmas decoration competition to build a Christmas tree or decoration (anything Christmassy!) made out of lab materials and as pointed out by Dr. Prencipe the most valuable lab materials are the people. Jingles cells was a hit with Prof. Gallagher as lead angel and the CBT lab were joint winners of the competition.
Dr Seodhna Lynch (left) was delighted to be shortlisted for an oral presentation for the UCD Allergan Innovation Award at the UCD Conway Festival in October 2018. Her talk was on the investigation of miRNA Expression and their potential prognostic utility as biomarkers in prostate cancer. Congratulations to Eve O’Reilly PhD student (right) who was …
Dr. Arman Raman and Claudia Aura MD, represent the CBT lab at the 5 year celebration of BREAST-PREDICT. One of the Irish Cancer Society’s greatest achievements over the past five years has been Breast-Predict, the country’s first collaborative cancer research centre. The CBT group and Prof. William Gallagher are delighted to be a part of …
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Dr. Arman Rahman and Dr. Seodhna Lynch were delighted to be selected for a poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2018 in Chicago, USA. Seodhna’s poster was titled ‘Investigation of miR-205 expression and its methylation status in prostate cancer’. Seodhna was awarded the UCD Seed Funding Dissemination and Outputs …
Congratulations to PhD student Romina Silva for being awarded two travel grants in 2018: EACR bursary (700€), which was used to attend the EACR conference in Amsterdam (July 2018). She presented her work, entitled “Evaluating Liquid Biopsies for Methylomic Profiling of Prostate Cancer”, in the poster session. Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds travel grant (1,300€), which was …
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21st March: Daffodil Day bake sale – An incredible €823 euro was raised! Congratulations to all involved for a fabulous effort.