Hugh O’Neill (supervisors Prof Fergal O’Brien, Dr Garry Duffy) a final year BioAT PhD student in the Tissue Engineering Research Group at RCSI, was awarded the Donegan Medal for the best oral presentation at the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Section of Biomedical Sciences annual meeting held in RCSI on the 18th of June 2015. Hugh received the award for his presentation entitled “TheraCardium: On-demand therapeutic delivery device for failing hearts”. Hugh carried out this research while on placement in the US at the Harvard Biodesign Lab headed by Prof. Conor Walsh (http://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/). This placement was supported by a EMBO short term fellowship.

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Elaine Carton and Anthony Chubb

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