TWO SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
1. International Society for Eye Research (ISER) in Belfast (September 9-13). There were presentations from Pietro, Stuart, Varun, Judith, Reinhold, Sarah, and Alan.
https://www.react-profile.org/upload/KIT/system/uploads/40_ISER%202018_Final%20Program.pdf
2. QUB Regenerative Medicine Grouping (REMERGE) in Belfast (October 1st). Reinhold was among the guest speakers for REMERGE 2018.
PAPER PUBLISHED IN FRONTIERS
Paper recently accepted in Frontiers in Medicine
O'Neill CL, McLoughlin KJ, Chambers SEJ, Guduric-Fuchs J, Stitt AW, Medina RJ.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2018 Oct 16;5:273. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00273. PMID: 30460233
AWARDS
After a long and difficult journey, Christina, Alex, John, and Reinhold have been successful in the ICURe programme (Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research). Our project was one of the few winners that will be supported for the generation of a spin-out company. Exciting news but more hard work expected.
Reinhold was awarded £10K from Faculty to expand Jasenka’s miRNA work
OTHER EVENTS
- Reinhold chaired a Horizon 2020 Regenerative Medicine Networking event at Invest Northern Ireland (Sep 11th).
- Reinhold contributed to the University Staff Development Course on Project Management (Sep 27th).
- We had our Annual Research Away Day at the Titanic Hotel (Nov 30th).
STUDENTS
Welcome to Daniel, our new PhD student. We also had a visiting scientist from Brazil UNICAMP, Miss Leticia Queiroz da Silva, who is also starting a PhD. Good luck with your studies!
