Professor Abhay Pandit, Director of the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) has received funding under Science Foundation Ireland’s 2011 Technology Innovation Development Award programme (TIDA). The TIDA programme enables researchers to explore the initial stages of developing their research for commercial benefit, in this case the scale-up of a novel drug delivery system.
Research conducted by William (Bill) Daly, a postgraduate student at the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB), is featured on the cover page of leading international journal Interface, A Journal of the Royal Society.
Three postgraduates have been awarded Best Poster Prize at the NUI Galway Neuroscience Research Day, held on December 2nd.
Dr. Michael Keeney, a PhD graduate of NUI Galway, has been awarded the prestigious European Doctoral Award for his PhD studies. The award is made annually by the European Society for Biomaterials and confers added value to the Doctoral Degree already gained by Dr. Keeney.
Dr Dimitrios Zeugolis, lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and Principal Investigator at the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) has received funding under the Health Research Awards 2011 scheme.
Researchers from the NFB promoted science and research at the 2011 Galway Science and Technology Festival Exhibition, part of the Discover Science’s National Science Week, held on the NUI Galway campus on November 27th.
Gianluca Fontana, a postgraduate researcher at the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB), NUI Galway, won the “Wiley Functional Materials Poster Award” for his poster presentation at the 24th European Conference on Biomaterials (ESB) held in Dublin from 4-8 September.
Andrew English, a postgraduate researcher at the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB), NUI Galway, has won an award for best poster presentation at the 7th NanoBio-Europe Conference, which was hosted in Cork in June.
Professor Abhay Pandit, Director of the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) at NUI Galway, has recently returned from Taiwan, where he delivered a plenary lecture at the 2011 International Symposium on Recent Advances in Pluripotent Stem Cells. The lecture took place at Taipei Medical University, and coincided with the 7thAnnual Meeting of the Taiwan Society for Stem Cell Research.
Now recognised as a significant player in the international biomaterials industry, Ireland was the venue the 24th European Conference on Biomaterials from 4-8 September. Jointly hosted by NUI Galway’s Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB), and the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, this was the first time the annual meeting of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) was held in Ireland.
