Prof Cliona O'Farrelly
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Affiliation
Trinity College Dublin
Research Interests
- Reproductive Immunology
- Liver Immunology
- Cancer Surveillance
- Infertility
- Innate Anti-Viral Immunity
Cliona 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.