A Sligo pharmaceuticals worker is one of the faces of a new national campaign highlighting the positive impact science makes on Irish society.
Sara Feeney’s participation in the ‘Six Degrees of Innovation’ initiative is helping to explain the purpose of new medicines creation.
The outreach aims to highlight the close connections that exist between a wide variety of workers in Ireland who are creating new treatments and helping bring them to people with medical needs.
The AbbVie employee, who hails from Ballygawley, supports medicines quality control at the company’s Manorhamilton Road plant.
She features in a video which tells the story of Irish sailing enthusiast Geoffrey McDonnell, who has been successfully battling blood cancer with the help of his medical team.
The film explains how the development of new treatments helped Geoffrey resume his active lifestyle after developing blood cancer. For the retired engineer, the availability of innovative medicines meant he achieved remission and a break from the disease.
The video is one of a series created by the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association.
