Project
The SugarCoat project is developing carbohydrate-derived hydrogel materials for potential antiadhesive properties and luminescent sensing capabilities, with the ultimate goal of producing smart medical device coatings.
Personnel and Partners
This project is led by postdoctoral researcher Dr Hannah Crory
The PI in Ireland is Dr Joseph Byrne and the PI in Northern Ireland is Dr Matthew Wylie of Queens University Belfast. Prof Colin McCoy (Head of Pharmacy, QUB) and Prof Abhay Pandit (Director of CÚRAM Centre for Medical Device Research) are mentors to this project.
University College Dublin, Queens University Belfast and University of Galway are partners in this project.
Funding
This project is supported by the HEA North South Research Programme and the Shared Island Initiative of the Government of Ireland.
Outputs
Hannah has presented parts of this work at the Young Researchers Meeting of InnoGly/GlycoNanoProbes COST Actions and the ICI Congress in Belfast.
Joe spoke about this project in the Irish Times and on GalwayBay FM.
Related News:
Romain completes his Erasmus+ internship with the group
Farewell to Romain Neveu, who is returning to his home university in France after a 4-month training mobility visit to our lab. Romain became a well-integrated member of the group and helped progress our investigations into fluorescent boronic acid derivatives. [click to see a quote]
Thomas & Joe speak at EuChemS-9, Sophie and Hannah present posters
Thomas & Joe gave talks at ECC-9, while Sophie and Hannah presented their research in poster sessions at this major international conference. [click image for more…]
Welcome to our summer students!
This summer we are joined by two visiting students from Arcadia University Study Abroad Programme and one student from Zhejiang Normal University (as part of UCD Chemistry’s ZJNU Summer School). Wanyujin is also back with us as a research assistant on the SugarCoat project. We hope it is a productive exchange for everyone!
Hannah wins poster prize at ICI Congress
Members of the group attended the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland’s Congress in Queens University Belfast this week. Two projects were presented as posters and Hannah won a poster prize for her work! [click image for more]
Group meeting at UCD and lunch
For the first time since the group moved to UCD, we had an in-person meeting of members from Galway and UCD. Karolina was returning from a research stay in Grenoble (funded by the French embassy in Ireland) and updated us on some exciting results, which Thomas, Hannah and Wanyujin gave updates on their work. Afterwards…
Hannah and Joe attend COST Meetings in Romania and Greece
Hannah attended the International Meeting of Young Researchers (Iasi) and Joe attended the Closing Meeting of InnoGly COST Action (Heraklion) recently [click image for more…]
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