Thank you everyone for coming to our Halloween Quiz Night! Congratulations to our winners and hope everyone has a Fang-tastic Halloween! 🎃👻

Meet #IUA3MT finalist Niall Ashfield representing DCU. Niall is on a mission to improve treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer by studying the combined effects of two approved drugs and developing models to understand treatment resistance. More info: iua.ie/3minutethesis

Niall Ashfield is a PhD Researcher from Dublin City University. This morning at #IUA3MT Niall is presenting his research on breast cancer treatments with the goal of reducing side effects and treatment resistance.

Congratulations to Niall Ashfield on doing such a fantastic job representing Dublin City University at the National Three Minute Thesis competition at the the Royal Irish Academy, did us all proud! Thanks to Irish Universities Assoc. for organising and hosting the event. DCU Life Sciences Institute DCU Research DCU School of Biotechnology

BRS Festive Movie Night will be taking place today in the LSRF Social Hub at 5.30pm. Make sure to come and watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas to get into the festive spirit with us! 🎄

Huge congratulations to Myra Castel on passing her viva and obtaining her PhD! It was a pleasure to supervise the project. Myra was funded through our Research Ireland ACORN project in DCU Life Sciences Institute. My thanks to the co-supervisory panel members Neil Conlon Naomi Walsh ProfJohnCrown

Massive congratulations to Marta Valenti, PhD on passing her PhD viva today! Marta was funded through the Research Ireland ACORN project in DCU Life Sciences Institute. It was a pleasure to supervise the project. My thanks to the co-supervisory panel members Alex J Eustace ProfJohnCrown DCU School of Biotechnology

Go Johnnie Go! On March 1st, Johnnie Moussoulides will attempt to "Beat the LUAS" to help raise funds to beat cancer. You can support Johnnie at idonate.ie/fundraiser/GoJ… CCRT ProfJohnCrown wish Johnnie the best of luck with his training and attempt to Beat the LUAS!

And noy on the UTV, we're talking about RPPA in T-DXd-resistant breast cancer cells - come along to Poster 35 at 2pm today and have a wee craic x News IACR

Last day of News IACR 2025! Fantastic contribution by the Cancer Biotherapeutics Research Group, Myra Castel PJA finalist and proffered talk, poster presentations from Marta Valenti, PhD Niall Ashfield Debbie O' Reilly Javier Sanchez Ramirez, Jessica Alyas, Muhammed Ashiq Thalappil

Plot twist: we got shortlisted for Best Poster! Thanks so much to News IACR for recognising my work and for once again hosting a world class meeting this week! 👏

Niall Ashfield’s PhD research in DCU School of Biotechnology is advancing targeted treatments for HER2+ breast cancer - and philanthropic support will bring his research one step closer to patients. Drive PhD research with impact at dcu.ie/donate

Niall Ashfield Niall Ashfield has received the #DCUPresidentAwards for Engagement Special Merit Award in the Student Category for his work in mentorship and science communication. Congratulations Niall!

The #DCUPresidentAwards for Engagement took place yesterday, celebrating the impact of the engagement of DCU staff and students with the life of the wider community. You can read about the award recipients here: launch.dcu.ie/41ZhPWc #WeAreDCU

Our 16th Annual Research Day will be taking place this Wednesday 16th April 2025, starting at 09:30am and finishing by 16:00pm in XG14. We're looking forward to seeing you there and hearing about all the exciting biological research taking place in Dublin City University !

Well done to all the winners for their research talks and poster presentations at the BRS Research Day yesterday 👏

Niall Ashfield’s PhD research in DCU School of Biotechnology is advancing treatments for HER2+ breast cancer. Thanks to support from the Orla Benson Memorial Scholarship, he’s collaborating with researchers in Norway to further his work. Read more here: bit.ly/43TZOZh