Faculty News & Events

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Dr. Gobbo has visited the University Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco, as part of a Trinity delegation led by the Provost, Dr. Prendergast.

The Faculty of Health Sciences call for applications for the Recognition in the rank of Senior Research Fellow.

Congratulations to all our 304 colleagues, but especially to our FHS colleagues, who were nominated for the 2019 Provost’s Professor Staff Awards.

Huge congratulations to Professor Helen Sheridan on her recently awarded Provost’s Teaching Award, acknowledging Helen’s excellence as a committed, enthusiastic and inspiring teacher over a career spanning 34 years.

Congratulations to Lidia Tajber who will partner with other Universities in a H2020 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2019) project, called LongActNow.

Following the announcement by the Provost at Front Square on Monday, April 29th, The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to our new Scholar Jemima Turner.

Congratulations to Prof. Lorraine O’Driscoll on being one of only 12 researchers nationally to successfully secure an IRC Advanced Laureate Award.

Trinity College Dublin School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is delighted to host the 41st All-Ireland Schools of Pharmacy Conference, which takes place on Wednesday 17th and Thursday the 18th of April, 2019.

The next edition of the ‘Staying afloat’ series of events will be held on the 9th April at 7pm. Reserve your ticket now via Eventbrite for this free event.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences welcomed the first student as part of this exchange, Ms Siham Boumhaouad.

QS World University Rankings 2019: Trinity Pharmacy & Pharmacology listed in the world Top 50 by subject! Congratulations to all staff and students!

SSPC, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Pharmaceutical Research Centre, has won new funding under the EPSRC-SFI Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) Partnership programme. The funding, secured from SFI, will enable the SSPC to engage with two of the world leading Schools of Pharmacy in the UK, at the University of Nottingham and University College London, in a new CDT in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences hosted its annual prize giving ceremony on Wednesday the 5th of December in the Senior Common Room, Front Square. This year, and thanks to a generous sponsorship by Alexion Pharmaceuticals the student prize giving ceremony doubled up as a networking event with our colleagues from the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Winners of the gradireland Postgraduate Course of the Year in Health Sciences 2019.

His work entitled 'Effect of novel H2-receptor selective compounds on platelet aggregation' is part of a collaboration between Prof. Maria Santos-Martinez group' (School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Prof Isabel Rozas' group (School of Chemistry).

Trinity College Dublin has launched 40 fully funded PhD positions across a wide variety of disciplines. The 40 Provost’s PhD Project Awards are open to EU and Non-EU candidates and include an annual stipend of €16,000 for four years.

Sara Strobel-Sabatini and Audrey Leung, final year PharmD students from the University of Southern California (USC) are pictured here with Assoc. Prof. Martin Henman.

Dr Atif Madi, who has been working as a Research Fellow within the Oral Formulations Group of Professor Anne Marie Healy for the past two years, has secured a fund and was awarded a SFI Industry Fellowship.

Professor Lorraine O’Driscoll has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV). ISEV is the global professional society for researchers from academia, clinical settings and industry who are involved in the study of microvesicles and exosomes (collectively termed EVs).

TRAIN-EV brings together leading European researchers studying exosomes and microvesicles (collectively termed extracellular vesicles (EVs)) in health and disease. Prof Lorraine O’Driscoll is lead P.I. and Director of TRAIN-EV. TRAIN-EV’s other academic, clinical and industry partners are from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Estonia and Portugal. It is funded by the EU Commission’s H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN) programme by almost €4 million.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is involved in a €2.3M H2020 student and staff exchange programme ORBIS (Open Research Biopharmaceutical Internships Support). The ORBIS project is aimed at improving the preclinical pathway of medicine development by integrating multidisciplinary research involving academia and industry, as well as raising awareness among the general public of the importance of pharmaceutical research.