PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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Cavanagh Pharmacy Building (September 2010). This event
marked the end of an innovative three-day business seminar
held each year for the final year pharmacy students to
provide them with an introduction to the skills they will need
in their future careers. Professor Anita Maguire, Head of the
School of Pharmacy, highlighted Tom and Marie Cavanagh’s
ongoing commitment and support for UCC across many
aspects of the university including the development of the
Cavanagh Pharmacy Building, and most importantly his
active engagement with governance in the institution over
many years.
Dr Tom Cavanagh and Marie Cavanagh
• UCC has signed an IP licensing agreement with Cork biotech
firm, Lee Oncology Ltd, that may lead to the commercial
development of new cancer drugs following collaboration
between the company and UCC’s Analytical and Biological
Chemistry Research Facility Agreement on Cancer Drug
headed by Professor Anita Maguire.
• Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll was an invited speaker at the
tenth international symposium on advances in technology and
business potential of new drug delivery systems organised by
the Controlled Release Society (Indian chapter), in Mumbai
(February 2010).
• Dr Stephen Byrne, along with colleagues in the School of
Medicine and Department of Computer Science, has signed a
licence agreement with Clinical Support Information Systems
Ltd, for their novel research on e-prescribing systems. The
project was also shortlisted for the UCC First Annual Research
Commercialisation Awards.
• Dr John F. Cryan (Pharmacology) was an invited lecturer at
the International Elite Masters programme in Neuroscience,
University of Regensburg, Germany. He was also an invited
lecturer at the Faculty of Biological Sciences University
of Leeds. He gave the plenary CLASS lecture at the
Neuroscience Research Day, University College Dublin and
was an invited speaker at the Polish Academy of Natural
Sciences, Institute of Pharmacology, Krakow, Poland. In the
past year Dr Cryan has also taken up the posts of editor for
British Journal of Pharmacology, associate editor of Frontiers
in Psychopharmacology and associate editor of Frontiers in
Gastrointestinal Pharmacology.
• Dr Moreen Donahue, Senior Vice President, Patient Care
Services and Chief Nurse Executive, and Dr John Murphy,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Danbury Health
Systems, Connecticut , USA, visited CUH and CUMH to discuss
‘Reconfiguration of the Health System’. Dr Murphy delivered
a lecture on ‘Spirituality in Medicine Today’. Dr Donahue
addressed the BSc (Nursing Intellectual Disability) students on
the subject ‘Downs Syndrome: A mother’s perspective’.
• Dr Erja Moore, Principal Lecturer, North Karelia University of
Applied Sciences, Finland, presented ‘Studying for a university
degree at adult age’ (October 2010).
• SFI/PCI held a forum in the Cavanagh Pharmacy Building (May
2010) that provided a networking opportunity for academic
researchers conducting research relevant to process analytical
technology, chemometrics, process modelling and converging
technologies, with industry based in Ireland. The aim of the
forum was to connect leading researchers in academia with the
pharmaceutical industry to foster links and allow companies
to benefit from new and enhanced technologies. The forum
was hosted by Professor Anita Maguire, Head of School of
Pharmacy and Director of ABCRF. The School of Pharmacy
also hosted the second Annual Irish Drug Delivery Network
(IDDN) conference with UKICRS ‘ Advancing Drug Delivery’
(June 2010). The IDDN is funded through the SFI.
• Dr Ciara O’Toole (Speech and Hearing Sciences) attended a
workshop on assessment in bilinguals in Gregynog, Wales,
hosted by the Economic Social and Research Council Centre
for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor