
Pictured (l-r) is Cian O’Leary, Elaine Quinlan (both PhD students) and Dr Greg Miller (postdoc) who were all prize winners at the 20th Annual Conference of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI), which was held on the 24th and 25th of January in Limerick. The RCSI Tissue Engineering Research Group had a very successful weekend in which Elaine Quinlan, took the RAMI Bronze medal for best overall presentation of the conference with her talk entitled ‘Collagen-Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds for the Release of Growth Factors to Promote Bone Repair’. Cian O’Leary was awarded 1st prize in the Established Researcher – Tissue Engineering category for his presentation entitled ‘Bilayered Collagen-GAG Scaffolds for Respiratory Tissue Engineering: Improving Tracheobronchial Scaffold Design’. Finally, Dr. Greg Miller was awarded 1st prize in the Postdoctoral Researcher Category for his presentation entitled ‘Mechano-regulation of induced in vivo skeletal tissue differentiation’.