Biocon India is incorporated as a joint venture between Biocon Biochemicals Ltd. of Cork, Ireland and an Indian entrepreneur, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. It is a fully integrated healthcare company that “delivers innovative biopharmaceutical solutions”

Press Release (Biocon)

Worth remembering: In 2004 Mary Harney appointed Dr Barry McSweeney as the country’s first Chief Scientific Officer. Dr McSweeney had previously worked as Director of Medical Business for Biocon Biochemicals.

Biocon (Wikipedia)

Via Oireachtas Retort 

Stroke victim Cathy Hutchinson paralysed for 15 years uses a brain implant to control a robotic arm. Cathy is only one of two people with the implant and this is the first public demonstration of the technology.

Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm (nature)

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Earlier: Far Right Hipsters In Ireland

Economists (above) from left Michael Taft (Unite trade union), Professor Terrence McDonough (NUI Galway) and academic Dr Andy Storey (UCD) at the Mont Clare Hotel, Dublin, this afternoon backing the Campaign Against the Austerity Treaty.

Group Of Economists Urge No vote (Mary Minihan, irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Mad starey eyes. Teutonic tailoring. Nazi hair.

It must be the press conference for the ludicrous ‘Europe For Freedom And Democracy’ group [in The Shelbourne Hotel this afternoon]. Present were, top from left: Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Danish MEP and Irish Times contributor Morten Messchersmidt, Paul Nuttall (MEP, UKIP) and Finnish MEP Sampo Terho; second pic: Farage and Messchersmidt; Farage again; EFD press officer Hermann Kelly, and assistant to MEP Roger Helmer, Francesca Salierno.

Racial tolerance, sensitivity, rationality, etc. (out of picture).

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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