Congrats to Cian Kingston and Dr. Ramulu Akula on winning the poster prize for strand 1 at the SSPC (Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Center) September technical meeting hosted by UCD.

Congratulations to Dr. Steven O’Reilly who has just passed his Viva!

Steven worked on a variety of catalysis projects throughout his PhD and has submitted his thesis entitled “New Oxazoline-Containing Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis”.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Doran on passing his Viva!

Robert developed new methodology for asymmetric transformations and applied this methodology in the synthesis of natural products. He has submitted his thesis entitled “The synthesis of lactone-containing natural product analogues and the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of sterically hindered alpha-aryl ketones”.