Prof. Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris
Don Panoz Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Research Institute:
Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI)
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- Research Area(s):
Development and manufacture of cell therapies, with a strong emphasis on metabolomics.
Research Description:
Professor Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is the newest member of the NIBRT Principal Investigator (PI) team. Sakis has joined NIBRT as a joint appointee with Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he holds the Don Panoz Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Sakis will conduct his research at both NIBRT’s world-leading manufacturing research institute and at Trinity’s Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) on the St James’s Hospital campus. His research will focus on the development and manufacture of cell therapies, with a strong emphasis on metabolomics, and the eventual translation of these therapies towards the clinical research setting. Prior to joining TCD and NIBRT, Sakis was Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory since August 2018 before which he held the position of Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.Sakis’ expertise in modelling biological systems and bioprocesses, specifically in mammalian cell culture systems, stem cell bioprocessing, and tissue engineering, aligns with NIBRT’s and TCD’s research goals of establishing Ireland as a preferred location for the manufacture of advanced therapies.
