The committee are charged with the organisation of all BRS events for the following year. The committee is made up of postgraduate students from within the School of Biotechnology and its related institutes. The committee are essential in sustaining the BRS and delivering on the excellence achieved by previous years. Massive thanks are extended to those no longer on the committee.

Niall Ashfield
Niall is a final year PhD student in the Cancer Biotherapeutics Research Group under the supervision of Dr Denis Collins and Dr Amira Mahdi in University of Limerick. His work focuses on novel combinations of tyrosine kinase inhibitors and antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer; they have also been investigating models of acquired treatment resistance in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Natalija Aleksejenko
Natalija is a final year PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Janosch Heller, Prof. Phil Cummins and Dr. Keith Rochfort. Her research focuses on how astrocytes support the maintenance and formation of the blood-brain barrier through the release of extracellular vesicles. She is also investigating how this changes during inflammation.

Margherita Obinu
Margherita is a 2nd year PhD student working on a multi-disciplinary project that combines Cancer research and Neurobiology, under the supervision of Dr. Gary Lawrence, Dr. Alexander Eustace and Dr. Paul Buchanan. Her Project specifically focuses on the interplay between Cancer, Innervation and Pain related to this.

Panagiotis Sarametidis
Panos is a 3rd year PhD student working on pancreatic cancer. He studies the tumor microenvironment and its interactions with the immune system. He uses patient samples to form co-cultures with tumor organoids, fibroblasts and lymphocytes, and tests the effect of immunotherapeutic drugs on them.