CDPC immunologist Dr Martina Schroeder will be part of the NUI Maynooth Library's Science & Engineering Festival 2010, which is taking place in the John Paul II Library from Tuesday 26 January until Friday 29 January 2010. Dr Schroeder will speak about the CDPC's work in a talk entitled 'Basic science and global health: an Irish perspective' on Thursday 28 January from 1.10pm - 1.50pm. All are welcome.

This year's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition is underway at the RDS until 16 January. View photos of CDPC-supported projects and the Consortium's presence at the exhibition here.

The CDPC congratulates Thomas Dunne on winning two awards at the Exhibition, the Senior Individual Prize and the IBM Award. The IBM Award recognizes the project that best exemplifies collecting data from some aspect of the physical world and using technology to turn that data into intelligence that can be actioned - making some aspect of our world "smarter".

Read IBM's blog on Thomas's win here.

Thomas Dunne with his project entitled 'In search of the gene that causes 1,000,000 deaths each year'

The CDPC is proud to support projects at this year's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition which will be held at the RDS from 14-16 January 2010. Further details will be posted shortly; in the meantime please visit the BTYS website.

Dr Louise Ivers, an Irish-born, Haitian-based doctor working with Partners In Health (PIH), has sent an urgent appeal for much-needed provisions for affected Haitians following a devastating earthquake which hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon. Read the CDPC news item here or by visiting PIH's website.