The Trinity Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Women's Health (TCRW)
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Trinity College Dublin has a long-standing track record of excellence in women’s health and reproductive sciences, spanning clinical care, research and policy.
This includes historic leadership in women’s reproductive health research under Professor John Bonnar, alongside more recent advances in reproductive immunology, reproductive endocrinology, clinical trials, psychology, haematology, law, ethics and social policy.
Building on this foundation, the Trinity Centre for Women’s and Reproductive Health is the first dedicated transdisciplinary Centre at Trinity focused on Women’s and Reproductive Health.
Aim
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By connecting researchers with clinicians who have access to patient populations across multiple hospital sites, TCRW aims to accelerate translation from research discovery to improved diagnosis, treatment, service design and policy.
Goals
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Mission
Through discovery, better care and policy change, the Centre will transform women’s and reproductive health and improve outcomes for people affected by reproductive disorders
Centre Co-Directors
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Dr Lisa Owens is a Consultant Endocrinologist at St James’s Hospital and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.
Lisa has a specialist interest in reproductive endocrinology and has led specialist reproductive clinics at St James’s Hospital since 2019. Her work spans reproductive health across the lifespan, with particular interest in menstrual/reproductive disorders, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, male factor fertility, complex menopause and the interaction between fertility and metabolic health.
Her research focuses on translating clinical problems into research questions that can improve patient care, with interests spanning clinical research, translational science and health policy. She is Co-PI for the HRB funded Prepare trial (PREconception weight management Programme to Achieve weight Reduction and Enhance fertility). She also leads/co-leads other clinical research projects including assessing the psychological impact of living with obesity and infertility, and translational studies including defining how GLP-1 receptor agonists impact macrophage bioenergetics during mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
She is section chief for Reproduction for the Endocrine connections journal. She is a founding member of the Society for Endocrinology Reproductive Endocrinology Specialist Interest Group and a member of the Society for Endocrinology UK programme committee (2022-present) and has contributed to national clinical guidelines for the management of menopause in secondary care.
Through the Centre, Lisa is particularly interested in building multidisciplinary collaborations across Trinity and its affiliated hospitals, strengthening partnerships with patients and advocacy organisations, and developing research that addresses important unmet needs in reproductive health for both women and men.
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Professor Cliona O' Farrelly
TCRW Co-Director, Emeritus Professor of Immunology
Email ofarrecl@tcd.ieCliona O’Farrelly is Emeritus Professor of Immunology at Trinity College, Dublin, Fellow of AAAS, member of the Lister Institute Scientific Committee and a member of the Milieu Interieur consortium at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Her research focuses on liver and reproductive immunology in humans and other species, with particular focus on local innate anti-viral immunity, cancer surveillance and infertility.
Cliona has > 40 years research experience in Ireland, the UK and the US, is named on several patents and has collaborated with academic clinicians, university researchers and industry partners from across the globe over decades. She has written >250 papers and reviews and has a H index of 84 [GoogleScholar 2026]. She is/was lead PI on grants totalling >20million Euro, and co-PI on grants >30million Euro, including the recent EU funded UNDINE programme, the SFI Covid Research Hub and HRB award for the National Irish Covid BioBank (NICB).
She has supervised/co-supervised 50 PhD students and was awarded the Nature 2014 Mentoring Award, the Irish Research Scientists Gold Medal, the Isla Halliday Award, the LAST Award and the Graves Medal. Cliona has served on scientific review boards for the European Commission, the ERC, the German government, the Wellcome Trust, the MRC of the UK, the Austrian Science Fund, FCT and Caixa in Spain, as well as SFI and HRB in Ireland. She has performed ad hoc reviewing for >30 scientific journals.
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Dr. Michelle Lavin is a Consultant Haematologist in the National Coagulation Centre, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Her research is based in the Trinity Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Women’s Health, Trinity College Dublin, where she serves as Co-Director. Her doctoral work focused on von Willebrand Disease (VWD) and phenotypic variability, particularly in the setting of low von Willebrand Factor (VWF) levels. Her current research programme centres on improving recognition and diagnosis of heavy menstrual bleeding and enhancing care for Women and Girls+ with Bleeding Disorders (WGBD+).
Dr. Lavin serves as the Chair of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) VWD Committee, the European Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders (EAHAD) WGBD+ Working Group and as an Associate Member of the FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) Menstrual Disorders and Related Health Impacts Committee. She previously served as a Co-Chair on the ISTH VWF Scientific Subcommittee and as an invited expert on the 2021 ASH/ISTH/NHF/WFH Management of VWD guidelines & the 2021 EAHAD Principles of Care for WGBD. She has been the recipient of the Highlights of ISTH award, the Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award and, most recently, the Irish Haemophilia Society Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to Haemophilia.
PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1Jm4Ec99B9-k1/bibliography/public/