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NUIG-based CÚRAM teams with Neograft to develop new method to manufacture of coronary bypass device

Posted: 24th October 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Neograft, a Boston based medical technology company has teamed up with CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices, to develop a novel manufacturing method for coronary bypass devices. Based at NUI Galway, CÚRAM has over 250 researchers engaged in current projects, both in collaboration with industry and on blue-sky research. Coronary […]

New programme to Advance Clinical Research Capability

Posted: 13th October 2016 Author: Vi Doan

A team of Irish clinical academics have secured one of seven major awards that have been made across the UK and Ireland by the Wellcome Trust as part of an initiative to increase clinical research capability. The scheme, which will be known as the Wellcome – HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training Programme, will support the […]

NUI Galway – New insights into potent cancer tumour suppressor gene

Posted: 30th September 2016 Author: Vi Doan

New insight into the function of a gene important in the suppression of cancer is published today. Researchers at the National University of Ireland Galway have shown that the TP53 gene has even greater anti-cancer activity than previously thought. Professor Noel Lowndes is head of the Centre for Chromosome Biology at the National University of […]

NUI Galway Medical Students win Public Speaking Competition

Posted: 9th December 2015 Author: Vi Doan

‌2015 Intervarsity Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition Year 4 medical students, Jenny Fitzgibbons and Ming Cai won the 2015 intervarsity Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition on Nov 25th. This year’s debate topic was “People ask all the time how I’m doing, but the truth is, they don’t really want to know”. Each of the 7 medical schools […]

World-Renowned Surgeon to Deliver Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture at NUI Galway

Posted: 4th September 2014 Author: Vi Doan

NUI Galway will host Ireland’s largest surgical conference, the 39th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium, on 5-6 September 2014. Internationally renowned surgeon, Dr John Birkmeyer will deliver the Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Strategies for Improving the Quality of Surgical Care’. John Birkmeyer, MD is the George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery and Director […]

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NUIG-based CÚRAM teams with Neograft to develop new method to manufacture of coronary bypass device

New programme to Advance Clinical Research Capability

NUI Galway – New insights into potent cancer tumour suppressor gene

NUI Galway Medical Students win Public Speaking Competition

World-Renowned Surgeon to Deliver Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture at NUI Galway