NEWSLETTER APR-JUN 2019
Volume 2 / Issue 6
STUDENTS
Congratulations to our PhD students Lydia and James who successfully passed their PhD VIVAs.
Well done to our undergraduate student Lara who finished her undergraduate Honors degree research project.
Best of lucks to Veronica, a visiting PhD student from Spain (IDIVAL) who completed 4 months training in our labs.
Very well done to Japanese MD students Toshikazu Sasaki and Kanako Takashima who successfully finished their 3-month research projects in our labs.
AWARDS
Jasenka received a QUB STAR Award for her continued hard work and commitment to research in the WWIEM.
GRANTS
Edoardo and Reinhold won a mini-grant to perform 10x single cell next gen sequencing experiments.
Judith was offered a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from Diabetes UK.
Alan and Reinhold were awarded a research project grant from Fight for Sight.
CONFERENCES
Pietro and Reinhold attended the European Vascular Biology Meeting 2019 in Maastricht.
Varun and Reinhold attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting 2019 in Los Angeles.
Well done to Pietro and Varun for the excellent poster presentations.
ONE PAPER PUBLISHED
Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes: Current Scenario and Future Perspectives.
Pathak V, Pathak NM, O'Neill CL, Guduric-Fuchs J, Medina RJ.
Clin Med Insights Endocrinol Diabetes. 2019 May 3;12:1179551419844521. doi: 10.1177/1179551419844521. eCollection 2019. Review. PMID:31105434
OTHER EVENTS
- Christina, Jasenka, Varun, and Reinhold visited the Diabetes UK offices in Belfast to showcase our research interests with Diabetes UK volunteer group.
- Reinhold contributed to the workshop ‘Managing your research grant’ as part of the University Vitae: Leadership development for principal investigators (PIs) Programme.
