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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

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

Materials

Indentation fracture mechanics
Crack-microstructure interactions in advanced ceramics

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

Human object manipulation

Sensory influences on postural control

Simple medical devices to adjust balance

Neuromodulation of pain

 

Prof. Sally-Ann Cryan

Affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Contact email: scyan@rcsi.ie

Translational & molecular pharmaceutics


Novel biomaterial development for drug delivery & tissue engineering applications

Particle engineering strategies for bioresponsive and cell-type specific targeting of therapeutics

Nanomedicines including non-viral gene delivery systems for transfection of a range of cell types including cancer, immune, epithelial and stem cells

Particle-cell interactions & nano-toxicology

Delivery of gene- and protein-based therapeutics

Drug and gene-loaded scaffolds for tissue engineering

Therapeutic aerosol bioengineering of novel treatment strategies for inflammatory lung disease and respiratory infections, including tuberculosis

Drug-device product development

Tissue engineering epithelium

In vitro and in vivo models for the assessment of biomaterials & drug delivery systems
 

 

 

 

 


Last updated 12 August 2013 by Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (Email).