The Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Young Chemists’ Network, together with RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-hosted the 45th ICI Congress (virtual) on Thursday, 30th September, 2021 from 09.30-17.00

The Congress theme was ‘Impacting Healthcare with Chemistry’.

It was in honour of Sir Charles A. Cameron to commemorate the centenary of his death.

Please find programme details here: ICI Congress 2021 Programme

 

The ICI is delighted to announce that
Professor Dervilla M.X. Donnelly, Emeritus Professor of Phytochemistry
at University College Dublin,
has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Institute.

This is in recognition of her highly distinguished career in academia and her significant contributions to the wider community serving in a variety of leadership roles.  Professor Donnelly was elected the first female President of the Royal Dublin Society, and appointed Chairman of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Chairman of the European Science Research Council, Vice-President of the European Science Foundation, and Senior Vice-President and Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Boyle-Higgins Medallist, a UCD Charter Day Medallist, and a Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medallist.
Our warmest congratulations to Professor Donnelly on receiving this honorary fellowship, one of the highest honours the Institute can bestow.

 

 

 

The ICI Annual Award Ceremony will take place virtually on Thursday, 29th April, 2021 from 16.00-18.00

The ICI AGM will also take place following the ICI Award Ceremony on  Thursday, 29th April, 2021 commencing at 18.30

Details have been emailed to all ICI members. Further details will be posted here shortly.

The Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Annual Award for Chemistry was inaugurated in 2005. Since 2007, the lectures are termed the Eva Philbin Public Lecture Series. The late Professor Eva Philbin was formerly Head of the Chemistry Department in University College Dublin and also a former President of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. The award is for a practising chemist, who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of chemistry and has considerably raised the profile of chemistry through both the excellence of their work and their ability to communicate in an effective and lucid manner.

Following an open call for nominations for the ICI Annual Award for Chemistry (Eva Philbin Public Lecture Series) 2020 and an independent review process, we are delighted to announce that the 2020 recipient of this award is
Professor Declan Gilheany, School of Chemistry, University College Dublin.
Our warmest congratulations to Professor Gilheany. We look forward to Professor Gilheany’s public lecture in due course, the details of which will be posted here.

Congratulations to Dr Conor Crawford, ICI Postgraduate awardee 2020, on being the 2021 recipient of the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize!
Further details in relation to this award and Conor’s research related to vaccine development may be found here