Irish scientist wins European Young Researcher Award

A UCD scientist has won the European Young Researcher Award at Euroscience 2010. It’s the first time that an Irish-based researcher has won the prestigious award.

Dr Donal Brennan, a postdoctoral research fellow at the UCD Conway Institute, was presented with the award in recognition of outstanding work in the early stages of his scientific career.

Donal is a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin.

He has done pioneering research on the identification and validation of breast cancer-associated biomarkers.

Biomarkers (biological markers) are being increasingly used in many scientific fields to take objective measurements – they act as indicators of normal and disease processes or pharmacological responses.

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The Euroscience Open Forum 2010 was held in Turin, and Dublin will be hosting it in 2012. Besides hosting the international conference for scientists, there will be many events, workshops and seminars for the public.

A young team on the Science Communications Bus is promoting Dublin’s role as 2012 City of Science, and recently arrived in Turin for this year’s science conference.

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