New Ph.D. from the lab

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Congratulations to James Jenkins, who successfully defended his Ph.D. on 20-Oct-2016 at UCC. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in period of 2013-2016 (3 years) under supervision of Prof. D. Papkovsky and Dr. R. Dmitriev. His project addressed development of multi-parametric FLIM and PLIM live cell microscopies for improved design and studies of 3D tumour cell models. His published works include: design of O2-sensitive hybrid scaffold materials for 3D cell culture, study of expression and function of SPCA2 ATPase in colon cancer cells and imaging of T and O2 gradients in tumour spheroids. Well done, James!

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