17-year-old Thomas Dunne, a fifth-year student at Colaiste Lorcain, Co. Kildare, was in the news for his work on establishing why the P. falciparum malaria species is so deadly. During his research, which took place in NUI Maynooth's Department of Biology, Thomas worked with Dr James McInerney (Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Unit) and CDPC trainee James Wainaina (Kenya Medical Research Institute). Read the Irish Times article entitled 'Mixing up smart fluids and killing off malaria' here.