Dyson Award for young graduate's invention which could help thousands of Irish patients

Dyson Award for young graduate's invention which could help thousands of Irish patients

Maynooth University graduate Zoë O’Sullivan developed the ‘Lymphia’ device which won the national James Dyson Award.

A novel invention to help support patients with a serious condition that affects around 20,000 people in Ireland has won the national prize in the prestigious James Dyson Award.

Maynooth University graduate Zoe O’Sullivan won the award for Lymphia, a device she developed for patients with lymphoedema, which is a chronic and under-recognised condition that can occur as a result of cancer treatment.

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