On August 24th,
the IBDP Biology and Chemistry students had the wonderful privilege to attend a
Seminar on “Breakthroughs in Biotechnology” by Dr. Justin McCarthy is a Senior
Lecturer, Director of Biotechnology and Science Foundation Ireland. Dr. McCarthy
is currently a SFI Principal Investigator in the Analytical and Biological
Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF) and Director of the Signal Transduction
Laboratory.
A proud
recipient of Johnson & Johnson/Science Foundation Ireland, Healthcare
Innovation Programme Award, Dr. McCarthy engaged the young learners of the DP
in a very interesting discussion on how bio-engineering has opened new avenues
in the field of scientific research and has made possible those aspects of
scientific inquiry that were only considered a distant dream a few decades
earlier.
The discussion
involved a wide spectrum of topics from “designer babies” to “gene therapy “
and brought in a new insight into the understanding of Biotechnology and
ethics.
