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CuriosiTY Transition Year Programme

Challenge:Secondary school students need opportunities to explore STEM

What we offer:

  • 1-week long programmes for TY students offered throughout the year, each presenting students a variety of hands-on experiences and informative talks.

Contact: (opens in a new window)curiosityprogramme@ucd.ie 

CuriosiTY Website

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Let's Chat Medicine

Challenge:The general public does not understand what Personalised Medicine means.

What we offer:

  • 5-day workshops with teen participants from across the country in UCD and Barretstown campuses, aiming to bring young members of the public together with researchers and artists in a collaborative effort to co-create multimedia messages about Personalised Medicine that are accessible to all. 

Contact: (opens in a new window)Emma Whooley

Let's Chat Medicine Website

TY classroom in Conway lab

AMGEN Biotech Experience Ireland

The Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) is an innovative science education programme that introduces secondary school students to the excitement of scientific discovery. We provide training in molecular biology experiments for secondary school teachers with subsequent access to professional grade scientific equipment and curriculum-linked teaching materials to facilitate the teaching of laboratory practicals in the classroom, completely free of charge.

ABE has been in Ireland since 2014 and is hosted by Systems Biology Ireland. Although based in UCD, there are distribution centres in (opens in a new window)Drumcondra Education Centre(opens in a new window)Monaghan Education Centre, and (opens in a new window)Laois Education Centre. Training workshops are held in each of these locations every September, and teachers can collect kits from these venues throughout the year

Contact: (opens in a new window)abe-ireland@ucd.ie

More Information: (opens in a new window)ABE Ireland Website

Precisely: a Precision Medicine Podcast

Precisely is the new podcast series from SBI, featuring in-depth interviews with the researchers, clinicians and thought-leaders working to make precision medicine a reality in Irish healthcare.

The first five episodes are available to listen to here.

Contact:(opens in a new window)sbiadmin@ucd.ie

Systems Biology Ireland

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
T: +353 1 716 6331 | E: sbiadmin@ucd.ie