Cell EXPLORERS are delighted to be a part of the first NUI Galway Mini Med School taking place in January & February 2016! Designed to introduce secondary school students to study, reseach and careers in healthcare, the mini med school programme will run over 4 evenings covering the topics of Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Research & Innovation with guest speakers and practical activities in all sessions. The theme for this year is Cancer and Oncology. Check out the program here

The Irish Area Section of the Biochemical Society had their conference in NUI Galway this year and Cell EXPLORERS was delighted to be involved in the science outreach and education session that was ran on the 7th December. The session started with some short talks from representatives of different science outreach programmes, competitions and from primary and secondary school teachers. Following this there was show and tell space where people could see and learn about the dif