The Academy Celebrates Science Week 2024

About Science Week

Science Week is a week-long event in Ireland each November, celebrating science in our everyday lives. Science Week includes a wide variety of events involving industry, colleges, schools, libraries, teachers, researchers and students throughout Ireland. Science Week has a number of regional festivals offering a range of opportunities for the public to engage with STEM across Ireland.

Follow our videos/presentations below from medical Scientists across Ireland.
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Sinead Creagh, President of the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine opens Science Week.

Sinead speaks about Science Week from Rotterdam where she attended the European Association of Biomedical Scientists (EPBS) Conference “Biomedical Scientists Unleashed: Shaping Sustainable Healthcare!”

St James’s Hospital celebrate the 40-year milestone of Bone Marrow Transplant

What’s it about: In 1984, Ireland’s first Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant was carried out in St James’s Hospital. We wish to invite you to celebrate the 40-year milestone of this life saving service, where we will host an academic day examining both the scientific and clinical side to this life-saving treatment.

Cindy Chong, winner of the Academy’s Presidents Prize and the prestigious Martin Nicholson award at the EPBS

Listen to Cindy’s story as a Medical Scientist on her return to Galway from Rotterdam where she attended the European Association of Biomedical Scientists Conference: “Biomedical Scientists Unleashed: Shaping Sustainable Healthcare!”

Blood Transfusion at Beaumont Hospital.

Follow Amy Murphy a Medical Scientist working in the Blood Transfusion department at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, while she takes you on a “Whistle-Stop” tour. Produced by Conor McMahon, Amy’s colleague.

A Day in the Life of a student Medical Scientist

Megan Chan shows some of what happens in the Microbiology Dept, in Cork University Hospital.
Production team: Owen Lucid, Deirdre Kirrane, Aoife O’Reilly, Jennifer Horgan, Grace Ann Coakley, Rachel Jeremy