Claire O’Connell interviewed Joe for a write-up in the Irish Times about his recent trip to Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, meeting chemistry Nobel winners, and my current research programme in into sensors for bacterial infections. Read the full article here.
Joe and his colleagues in Queens University Belfast and CÚRAM were recently awarded a North South Research Programme grant to carry out the SugarCoat project, developing smart coatings for medical devices to protect from bacterial infections. Joe was interviewed by Keith Finnegan on Galway Bay FM this morning about the promise of this project in the context of antimicrobial resistance. Listen at the links below.
Press release: NUI Galway (“Researchers aim to give new layer of protection to medical devices”).
Radio Interview on Galway Bay FM: podcast (0:29:00-0:38:50); article summary; [audio file]
Coverage in Connacht Tribune, Daily Mail (UK), Irish Medical Times, and Galway Daily; SFI Research News
Byrne Research Group 