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Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 21:45
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Stephen Barrett, a second year postgraduate student won 1st place for his poster (Estrogen – Copper (II) complexes as targeted anticancer metal based drugs) at the 71st Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium June 20th – 21st
The Colloquium was hosted this year by the School of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technological University Dublin & Department of Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Stephen works in the Montagner Group at Maynooth University and his current research centres around Targeted Copper (II) complexes with selective anti-cancer and anti-microbial activity.