TTMI Management Committee
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Prof. Aideen LongPrincipal Investigator; Director, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute
Research Areas: T cell; T cell activation; T cell migration.
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Prof. Derek DohertyProfessor in Immunology
Research Areas: Cancer, virus, NKT cells, γδ T cells, dendritic cells, B cells, cytokines, cytotoxicity, immunology.
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Prof. Stephen FinnConsultant Histopathologist and Principal Investigator
Research Areas: Lung, Prostate, Ovarian, Drug Resistance, Therapeutics, Biomarkers, non-coding RNA, circRNA, Digital Pathology, Molecular Patholog.
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Prof. Laura GleesonAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Tuberculosis.
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Prof. Mark LittleProfessor of Nephrology and Consultant Nephrologist
Research Areas: ANCA Vasculitis, Autoimmune Disease, Inflammation, Immunology, Patient Registry, Biobanking, Biomarkers, Informatics, AI Digital Technology.
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Prof. Eleanor MolloyProfessor of Paediatrics & Child Health, Paediatrics
Research Areas: Neonatal inflammation and Neonatal encephalopathy.
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Prof. Jacintha OSullivanProfessor in Translational Oncology and Education Lead for the Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases and cancers; Tumour microenvironment; Treatment resistance; Drug Discovery; Angiogenesis; Hypoxia ; Diagnostic platforms.
TTMI Principal Investigators
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Asst. Prof. Adriele Prina-MelloUssher Assistant Professor in Translational Nanomedicine
Research Areas: Advanced Translational Research of NanoMedicine (from Pre-clinical to Clinical, Precision, Personalised, Targeted nanomedicine)
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Prof. Aiden CorvinProfessor Consultant/Head of Discipline, Psychiatry
Research Areas: Aetiology of mental illness, Cognitive dysfunction in psychotic disorders, Neurodegenerative diseases including schizophrenia & Alzheimers disease, Neurogenetics, Psychiatric genetics, Schizophrenia.
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Dr. Anne-Marie BairdResearch Fellow, TTMI
Research Areas: Anticancer therapies; Asbestos; Biochemical Markers; Biological Markers; Biomedical Research Training; Cancer/Carcinogenesis; Disease Model; Drug discovery; Drug Resistance; Gene Expression; Gene Regulation
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Prof. Athanasios (Sakis) MantalarisDon Panoz Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Areas: Development and manufacture of cell therapies, with a strong emphasis on metabolomics.
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Asst. Prof. Cara MartinAssistant Professor in Molecular Pathology, Tumour Biology and Cancer Screening
Research Areas: Human Papilloma virus,Cancer Screening, Vaccination, Cancer Prevention, Biomarkers, Digital Cytology, RAMAN Spectroscopy.
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Dr. Cliona Ni CheallaighAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Age related diseases; memory and other cognitive processes; Gerontology; Host, Pathogen interactions; Innate immunology; Intra and intercellular signalling; Sociological influences on health.
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Asst. Prof. Dania MoviaAssistant Professor, Radiation Therapy
Research Areas: Lung cancer; Nanomedicine; 3D culture; Animal-free research.
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Assoc. Prof. Daniela TropeaAssociate Professor, Psychiatry
Research Areas: Schizophrenia and Rett Syndrome.
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Asst. Prof. Gareth BradyUssher Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Innate Immunity, Diagnostic / Screening Assays and Translational Immunology Studies.
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Assoc. Prof. Graham PidgeonAssoc. Prof. Graham Pidgeon
Research Areas: Angiogenesis; Anticancer therapies; Apoptosis; Apoptosis, molecular control; Biological Markers; Breast cancer; Cancer Biology; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis.
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Assoc. Prof. Joanne LysaghtAssociate Professor, Surgery
Research Areas: Cancer, Immunology, Immunotherapy, T cells, Tumour Microenvironment, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy.
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Assoc. Prof. Johannes WagenerAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Microbiology
Research Areas: Antifungals; Biomarker development; Invasive fungal infections, aspergillosis, candidiasis, aspergillus, candida.
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Prof. John OLearyChair of Pathology, Trinity College Dublin
Research Areas: Biomarkers of disease; Cervical Cancer; Development of array technologies; Molecular pathology; Prostate cancer.
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Prof. Joseph KeaneProfessor of Medicine, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Apoptosis; Host, Pathogen interactions; Infectious diseases; Innate immunology; Lung Cancer; Medicine; Respiratory System.
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Asst. Prof. Julie RenwickAssistant Professor, Clinical Microbiology
Research Areas: Aspergillus-fumigatus; Cystic fibrosis; Diagnostics; Lower respiratory-tract; Microbiology; Microbiome; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Respiratory infection.
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Dr. Kathy GatelyClinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: CTCs, ctDNA, 3D models, Patient-Derived Organoids (PDOs), lung cancer, drug resistance, biomarker discovery.
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Prof. Laure MarignolProfessor in Radiation Biology
Research Areas: Cancer, radiation, sex differences, Cas9, biomarkers, treatment.
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Dr. Lucy NorrisSenior Exp Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Research Areas: Venous Thromboembolism, Cancer, Thrombosis, Prophylaxis, LMWH, Coagulation, Ovarian Neoplasms, Haemostasis.
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Dr. Martin BarrClinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Liquid Biopsy; Lung Cancer; Non-small cell lung cancer, Anticancer therapies; Apoptosis and cancer; Biomarkers; Cancer Biology; Cancer chemotherapeutic drugs; Cancer genetics and cell biology.
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Dr. Mary OSullivanResearch Fellow, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, macrophage, dendritic cell, autophagy, apoptosis, host-pathogen interactions, metabolism.
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Prof. Mathias SengeChair of Organic Chemistry
Research Areas: Porphyrins, medicinal chemistry, photosensitizer, photodynamic cancer therapy, antimicrobials, photomedicine, bioisosteres, hydrogels, organic chemistry, drug design.
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Prof. Maureen O’SullivanConsultant Paediatric Pathologist/Clinic, Paediatrics
Research Areas: Paediatric; Solid Cancer; Chromosomal translocation; Epigenetics; Chromatin; Kidney; Sarcoma; Polycomb.
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Dr. Niamh Lynam-LennonResearch Assistant Professor, Surgery
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal Cancer, Radioresistance, Predictive Biomarkers, Energy Metabolism, microRNA, Complement System.
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Prof. Nicki PanoskaltsisProfessor in Personalised Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Areas: Hemato-Oncology; Acute myeloid leukemia; Human 3D Organoids.
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Ussher Asst. Prof. Nollaig BourkeUssher Assistant Professor in InflammAgeing
Research Areas: Inflammation, Ageing, Interferons, Innate Immunity, Biological Age.
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Prof. Orla SheilsProfessor in Molecular Diagnostics, Histopathology
Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Bioinformatics; Biomedical ethics; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis; Cervical cancer; Diagnostics; Prostate cancer.
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Prof. Padraic FallonProfessor of Translational Immunology, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Allergies; ALLERGY; Animal Models; ANIMAL-MODELS; Asthma; CYTOKINE RESPONSES; DISEASE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS; Helminths; Immunotherapies; INFECTION; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE; Parasites; Transgenic Mice.
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Assoc. Prof. Patrick WalshAssociate Professor in Paediatric Immunology
Research Areas: Crohn’s, colitis, psoriasis, Coeliac, Cytokines, IL-1 family, barrier tissue sites.
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Prof. Ross McManusProfessor in Molecular Medicine, Clinical Medicine
Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Chronic inflamation; Coeliac disease; Genetics of inflammatory disease; Genomic structure and function; Inflammatory bowel disease; Psoriasis, Sepsis.
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Asst. Prof. Sharee BasdeoAssistant Professor in TB Immunology
Research Areas: Human alveolar macrophage, monocytes, Th17 cells, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, vaccines, heterologous immunity, trained immunity, metabolism, epigenetics.
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Dr. Sharon O’TooleSenior Exp. Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Research Areas: Gynaecological cancer, ovarian cancer, biomarker, cancer metastasis, circulating tumour cells, PPI.
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Asst. Prof. Shigeki NakagomeAssistant Professor, Psychiatry
Research Areas: Bioinformatics; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary genetics; Genomics; Host-pathogen interaction; Human Population Genetics; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; microbiome.
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Ussher Asst. Prof. Sinead SmithUssher Assistant Professor in Applied & Translational Medicine
Research Areas: Helicobacter pylori, antimicrobial resistance, infection & immunity.
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Assoc. Prof. Stephen G. MaherAssociate Professor in Translational Oncology
Research Areas: Pancreatic cancer, Oesophageal cancer, radiotherapy, radiobiology, chemotherapy, microRNAs, drug trafficking/flux, multi-omics, pancreatic cystic lesions, biobank.
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Asst. Prof. Tony Mc ElligottBone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust Assistant Professor in Molecular Haematology
Research Areas: Blood cancer; haematological malignancies; tumour microenvironment; cell therapy; drug discovery; myeloma; leukaemia, lymphoma; novel targets; haematopoietic stem cells.
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