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NEWSLETTER JAN-APR 2020

Volume 3 / Issue 1

NEW LAB MEMBERS AND STUDENTS

Welcome to Kevin, Shannon, and Benjamin, who recently joined our research group.

Well done to our undergraduate students Chloe and Alan who successfully finished their lab work for their BSc research project.

 Newmembers

 

SUPPORT TO NHS FOR COVID TESTING

Our lab has provided specialised equipment to the NHS to facilitate COVID-19 testing. Our Maxwell system enables automated rapid and efficient isolation of nucleic acids from multiple patient samples simultaneously. This will speed up COVID-19 diagnosis in Northern Ireland.

Maxwell

 

VIRTUAL MEETINGS

Our research group keeps working from home.

Virtual coffee

 

CONFERENCES

Reinhold was a guest speaker for the ERS 2020 Meeting in Lisbon.

Jasenka presented remotely at the Second Cardiovascular Disease Northern Ireland Meeting.

ERS

OTHER EVENTS

Reinhold attended the Center for Manufacturing Technologies-National Science Foundation meeting in Atlanta to present a US/Ireland research proposal to establish novel cell therapy approaches in collaboration with CMAT (US) and CURAM (Ireland).

CMAT