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Dr. Daniel Kelly
Director TCBE

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
kellyd9@tcd.ie

  • Mechanobiology of Mesenchyaml Stem cells

 

  • Cartilage Tissue Engineering
  • Vascular mechanics

 

Dr. Bruce Murphy
Deputy Director

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
bruce.murphy@tcd.ie

•  Aortic Valve regeneration

  • Mitral valve regurgitation

•  Local therapeutic delivery to diseased blood vessels
•  Force focused angioplasty
•  Vascular tissue engineering

 

 

 

Dr. Patrick Prendergast
Honorary PI

Affiliation:
Provost,
University of Dublin
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
pprender@tcd.ie

  • Biomechanical engineering 
  • Analysis of medical devices
  • Computational modeling of medical device performance
  • Stem cell mechanobiology (viz., understanding how stem cells differentiate in response to mechanical forces).

 

 

 

Prof. Clive Lee
Chair

Affiliation:
RCSI Department of Anatomy

Contact Email:
tclee@rcsi.ie

  • Bone
  • Remodelling
  • Microdamage detection
  • Fatigue
  • Regeneration

 

  • Osteoporosis
  • Content aware media processing
  • On-line anatomy teaching

 

Dr Conor Buckley

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
conor.buckley@tcd.ie

  • Regenerate the intervertebral disc (IVD)
  • Articular cartilage
  • Design and development of bioreactor based systems
  • Tissue engineering
  • Nutrient micro-environments
  • Biomaterial interactions
  • 3D scaffold construct technology

 

 

 

Prof. Veronica Campbell

Affiliation:
TCD School of Medicine

Contact Email:
vacmpbll@tcd.ie

 

  • Apoptosis
  • Biology
  • Biomedical sciences
  • Intra and intercellular signalling
  • Neurochemistry and neuropharmacology
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Physiology

Dr. Garry Duffy

Affiliation:
RCSI Department of Anatomy

Contact Email:
garryduffy@rcsi.ie

 

  • Regenerating the heart after ischemic cardiovascular disease through the application of both gene therapy and stem cell therapy.
  • Promotion of neovascularisation in ischemic tissues

 

  • Collaboratively, he is also interested in including tissue engineering bone grafts, ischemic peripheral limb disorders and diabetic

 

 

Prof. David FitzPatrick

Affiliation:
UCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
david.fitzpatrick@ucd.ie

  • Evaluation periodontal and implant therapy
  • Bone regeneration
  • Orthopaedic Biomechanics
  • Educational research

 

Dr. Catriona Lally

Affiliation:
DCU School of Mechanical Engineering

Contact Email:
triona.lally@dcu.ie

  • Cardiovascular Biomechanics
  • Soft Tissue testing
  • Medical Device Design
  • Vascular mechanobiology and cell biology
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Vascular imaging

Dr. Edmund Lalor

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
edlalor@tcd.ie

  • Processing of electrophysiological signals reflecting activity of human sensory systems
  • Multisensory integration
  • Effects of selective attention on sensory and perceptual processing
  • Computational modelling of the visual system at various hierarchical levels
  • The encoding and decoding of sensory information in populations of neurons
  • Sensory deficits in schizophrenia and autism
  • Brain-computer interfacing

Dr. Paula Murphy

Affiliation:
TCD School of Natural Sciences

Contact Email:
paula.murphy@tcd.ie

 

  • Bone and joint formation in limb long bones
  • Finite Element Analysis of the mechanical environment
  • Morphogenesis of the limb and facial region of developing vertebrate embryos
  • Generation of a 3D atlas of chick development with cross reference to the mouse
  • Evolution of regulatory mechanisms
  • Morphological and molecular analysis of mouse models of congenital abnormalities

Prof. Fergal O'Brien

Affiliation:
RCSI Department of Anatomy

Contact Email:
fjobrien@rcsi.ie

 

  • Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

- Natural and ceramic biomaterials
- Scaffold design and development
- Stem cell biology
- Cellular mechanics and mechanotransduction
- Bioreactor development
- Growth factor and gene therapy
- In vivo modeling

  • Bone mechanics and osteoporosis

-  Bone remodeling and repair
-  Microdamage
- Novel methods for OP diagnosis and   treatment

Prof. Brian O'Connell

Affiliation:
TCD School of Dental Science

Contact Email:
brian.oconnell@dental.tcd.ie

 

  • Titanium implant surfaces - modification at nanoscale to enhance bone growth
  • Combination of cell-seeded Collagen GAG scaffolds with titanium support
  • Use of bone-anchored implants for orthodontic anchorage
  • Development of intraoral sensor for the diagnosis and management of sleep bruxism

Dr. Kevin O'Kelly

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
okellyk@tcd.ie

 

  • Bioengineering

o Scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
o Synthesis and application of nano-particles of HA
o Effects of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis on mechanical properties of bone tissue

  • Materials

o Indentation fracture mechanics
o Crack-microstructure interactions in advanced ceramics

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Prof. Richard Reilly

 

Affiliation:
TCD Schools of Engineering & Medicine

Contact Email:
richard.reilly@tcd.ie

  • Functional Neuroimaging

 

  • Decoding Neural Activity
  • Active Implantable devices

 

  • Speech and Audio analysis

 

Dr. Ciaran Simms

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
csimms@tcd.ie

  • Injury biomechanics  
  • Vulnerable road user protection
  • Soft tissue mechanics
  • Lower back pain in rowers
  • Medical device design

 

Prof. David Taylor

Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering

Contact Email:
dtaylor@tcd.ie

 

  • Mechanical Properties of Biological Materials
  • Fracture mechanics of bone
  • Repair and adaptation of bone
  • Relationships between structure and mechanical function in nature
  • Strength and Fracture of Implant Materials
  • Stress concentration effects in fatigue and fracture
  • Bone cement

Dr. Alice Witney

Affiliation:
TCD Department of Physiology

Contact Email:
awitney@tcd.ie

 

  • Insect  Walking and Sensory integration
  • Human posture and balance
    • Sensory influences on postural control
    • Simple medical devices to adjust balance
  • Human object manipulation

 

 

 

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Last updated 22 February 2013 by Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (Email).