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Rosy graduates!

Congratulation to Dr Rosy Polisicchio on her graduation from University of Galway today! Rosy’s thesis was titled “Lanthanide-functionalised vitamin B12 probes for targeted tumour bio-imaging: from rational design to biological evaluation” and her primary supervisor was Dr Luca Ronconi. Joe was her secondary supervisor, lending his expertise on lanthanide chemistry. Rosy was supported by a Hardiman Scholarship and later won an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. She was also active in outreach during her PhD. Rosy has already started as an R&D Scientific Communication Advisor at Unilever in the UK. We wish Rosy every success in her future career!

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Rosy wins a prize in Threesis Contest

Rosy won second place in the 2022 Threesis Contest, where researchers present their thesis to a lay audience in 3 slides and 3 minutes. Dozens of PhD students from every school in University of Galway competed in this long-running Science Communication challenge this year, including Rosy and Karolina. Rosy’s talk, titled “Tumours play hide and seek; how do we win?” was received very well by the judges and audience and was a well-deserved prize winner. Well done, Rosy. You can watch a video of her contribution below.

Rosy is a PhD student in Luca Ronconi’s group at University of Galway, co-supervised by Joe since 2021. Her research is into lanthanide complexes conjugated to targeting biomolecules. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council, and previously by a Hardiman Scholarship.

Rosy wins her award
Luca Ronconi, Rosy Polisicchio, Joe Byrne
All the finalists for the 2022 Threesis Contest