Today, Brionna McGorman graduated from the M.Sc. Biomedical Diagnostics programme run here at DCU. Brionna carried out a 4 month research project in the Kellett Research Group and gained a lot of experience in the molecular biology lab during her project which involved the use of primer extension for the production of short oligos containing modified bases. Brionna has also secured IRC scholarship funding and has since commenced a PhD project entitled “Developing Next Generation Antisense Therapeutics through Nucleic Acid Click Chemistry”.