Faculty News & Events

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.

Following the announcement by the Provost at Front Square on Monday, April 9th, The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to our new Scholars: James McLaughlin, Laura Fitzpatrick and Mark Lyons.

The fund is designed to promote events taking place on campus, and Elizabeth’s project will feature portraits of colleagues from different departments in Trinity. We look forward to seeing the exhibition over the summer.

Professor Carsten Ehrhardt has been appointed as Section Editor of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Official Journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS). With a 5-year Impact Factor of 3.866, the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences one of the leading journals in the field. The journal publishes research articles, review articles and scientific commentaries on all aspects of the pharmaceutical sciences with emphasis on conceptual novelty and scientific quality.

A PhD position in the research group of Dr. Niamh O’Boyle in the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is now open to EU and Non-EU candidates and includes an annual stipend of €16,000 for four years.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been confirmed as a Top 100 School of Pharmacy&Pharmacology in the newly published QS Subject Rankings for 2018, an acknowledgement of the School’s position at the forefront of international pharmacy research and teaching.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences would like to thank Perrigo for their kind and generous sponsorship of its Summer Research Placement Programme (SRPP). Perrigo’s sponsorship of this School activity will make a significant contribution towards Ms Rachel-Jane McGuinness’ research project to be carried out over the summer months in the University of Hiroshima, Japan, with Dr Mikihisa Takano.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences hosted its annual prize giving ceremony on Tuesday the 5th of December in the Global Room, Watts Building, TCD. Professor Anne Marie Healy, Head of the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences welcomed academics, sponsors, students, family and friends to the ceremony.

Congratulations to Hadiah Almutairi, Practice of Pharmacy PhD student in the School, who won the prize for the best poster in Medicines and Health at the FIP 2018 Congress in Glasgow in September.

On the 28th November 2017, the Pharmacy Department at St. Vincent’s University Hospital signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.

Congratulations to PhD student Michelle Lowry on being awarded the Irish Cancer Society PhD student of 2017 gold medal.

Professor Lorraine O'Driscoll awarded almost €4 million for research on exosomes and other extracellular vesicles in cancer (2017-2021).

Alumni Notice - NPIP closing date January 8th, 2018. The NPIP programme will cease entirely with the 2018/2019 academic year. The final NPIP programme will commence in August 2018.

A collaborative event by the Postdoc Society of TBSI and the Postdoc Society of the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences took place on the 13th of October, 2017

Congratulations to Juliette O’Connell, PhD student in the School of Pharmacy, who received the Award for Best Oral Communication on 11th October at the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy Symposium in Heidelberg, Germany.

Researchers, led by Professor Lorraine O’Driscoll have found that cell to cell messengers released by cancer cells which are not responding to treatment, can negatively affect the body’s immune system response against the cancer.