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Transition Year Programme

Welcome.

The School of Biochemistry and Immunology runs two Transition Year work-experience weeks each year – in November and February.  We have places for 16 TY interns in each cohort.  Each intern spends half of the week in one of the School's laboratories participating in the scientific activities that are current at the time. The rest of the week involves group activities with talks, quizzes and visits to other scientifically relevant sites on campus.

We'd like to welcome you to help us push back the frontiers of science for a week. Researchers at the TCD School of Biochemistry and Immunology are working on understanding the biochemistry of life so that we can find new cures for cancer and other diseases. Our research groups include final year undergraduate students, graduate students working towards MScs and PhDs, qualified medical doctors and vets working towards higher degrees, research associates and post-doctoral researchers, ranging in age from 20 to more than 70. The thing that connects us all is a passion for science and an interest in figuring out how the biology of life works. We want to know how birds and mammals flourish in a microbial world, full of bacteria, fungi and bacteria some of which are out ‘to do them in'. You get to meet and talk with many of us and work with some of us.

The two main areas studied in the School are Biochemistry and Immunology.
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical basis of life.
Immunology is the study of how the immune system protects against infection and tumours.