Katie Dunleavy’s first degree was music, with a minor in medicine. “My focus on music was as an opera singer and I took my degree very seriously. I really enjoyed it and I knew it was something I excelled in. As a child I had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall, so I knew […]
The Irish Pain Research Network (IPRN) is a new national initiative that aims to bring together all active pain researchers on the island of Ireland (North and South) for the purposes of sharing research results and ideas and facilitating cross-institutional collaboration in the area of pain research. The IPRN will be launched by Professor Rolf-Detlef […]
RCSI’s Class of 2015 will join an international network of more than 20,000 alumni working in 70 countries worldwide.
The inaugural issue of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Magazine distributed by the Financial Times worldwide highlighted Ireland and UCC as a hub for innovation, new ideas, start-ups and creativity. The GEN initiative is a new voice for promoting entrepreneurial growth and support start-ups around the world and featured a foreword by U.S. President Barack Obama. With […]
The University of Limerick has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) and one of North America’s leading comprehensive medical schools, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The agreement will facilitate the exchange of […]
RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) welcomed its new cohort of students to the College. 484 students will begin their courses in Medicine, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy and get to know their way around the College, while also being introduced to the academic and administrative staff. Orientation Week 2015, which kicks off Monday 7th, will […]
Drug eluting stents have revolutionized coronary artery disease treatment reducing the stent renarrowing rate within six months after placement which was a limitation of early generation bare metal stents. This has widened the appeal and use of this stent option for patients with symptomatic angina or heart attack. However drug eluting stents are not without challenges […]
Students who take a post- graduate approach to studying medicine have the edge over those who enter straight from school, according to new research from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The findings emerge as a debate rages about the pressure on Leaving Cert students to score high points in order to be […]
Professor Pat Guiry has become the first Irish academic to be elected President of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC). The pan-European committee is responsible for the biannual event that brings together hundreds of experts from academia and industry, and students whose research covers organic chemistry and related areas. […]
In a major step for structural biology, a multi-institution scientific ‘tour de force’ has produced the first structural blueprint of a complex between ‘rhodopsin’, the light sensing protein in the retina, and one of its cellular signalling partners, ‘arrestin’. The blueprint provides one of the first convincing examples of the need for an X-ray-free electron […]
A new cross-political party Oireachtas group was launched last week to tackle childhood obesity and food poverty. RTÉ presenter Miriam O’Callaghan, and Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) spokesman and Consultant Endocrinologist at St Vincent’s and Loughlinstown Hospitals in Dublin, Prof Donal O’Shea, launched the Oireachtas Children’s Future Health Group, which is chaired by Independent Senator Jillian […]
Team involving Professor Gerry McElvaney from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland involved in global study Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have made an important breakthrough in the understanding and treatment of hereditary emphysema. The findings of this global study, published in the premier medical journal, Lancet, indicate that […]
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