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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
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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 |
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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).
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Prof. Clive Lee
Chair
Affiliation:
RCSI Department of Anatomy
Contact Email:
tclee@rcsi.ie |
- Bone
- Remodelling
- Microdamage detection
- Fatigue
- Regeneration
- Content aware media processing
- On-line anatomy teaching
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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Dr. Kevin O'Kelly
Affiliation:
TCD School of Engineering
Contact Email:
okellyk@tcd.ie |
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
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 |
- Active Implantable devices
- Speech and Audio analysis
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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
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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
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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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