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TTMI Management Team

Dr. Sharee Basdeo

Assistant Professor in TB Immunology; TTMI Deputy Director and Space Committee Chair

Research Areas: Human alveolar macrophage, monocytes, Th17 cells, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, vaccines, heterologous immunity, trained immunity, metabolism, epigenetics.

Dr. Nollaig Bourke

Associate Professor, Medical Gerontology

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Research Areas: Ussher Assistant Professor in InflammAgeing; TTMI Strategic & Future Research Talent Advisor

Dr. Eamon Breen

Operations Manager, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute

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Research Support Areas: Head of Flow Cytometry

Ms. Mary Cunneen

Biobank Coordinator, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute

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Research Support Areas: Coordinator Biobank Services and Repositories.

Dr. Stephen Finn

Consultant Histopathologist and Principal Investigator; TTMI Strategic Advisor

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Research Areas: Lung, Prostate, Ovarian, Drug Resistance, Therapeutics, Biomarkers, non-coding RNA, circRNA, Digital Pathology, Molecular Pathology

Professor Laura Gleeson

Associate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor

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Research Area: Tuberculosis

Mr. Eoin Kieran

Knowledge Transfer Case Officer, Trinity Innovation; TTMI Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Advisor

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Research Support Area: Knowledge Transfer, Intellectual Property and Commercialisation

Dr. Gina Renata Leisching

Research Assistant Professor; TTMI Engaged Research Hub Advisor

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Research Areas: Type I IFNs; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Immunometabolism; Tuberculosis.

Professor Mark Little

Professor of Nephrology and Consultant Nephrologist; Director, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI)

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Research Areas: ANCA Vasculitis, Autoimmune Disease, Inflammation, Immunology, Patient Registry, Biobanking, Biomarkers, Informatics, AI Digital Technology

Mr. Frank Mangan

Business Manager, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute

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Research Support Area: TTMI Management

Dr. Lyn Markey

Business Development Manager, Knowledge Exchange (KnEx)

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Research Support Areas: Business Development

Dr. Patrick Mitchell

Senior Lecturer Consultant, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor

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Research Areas: Management of complex airways and interstitial lung diseases; Severe Asthma; COPD; Interstitial lung disease; Sarcoidosis; Chronic Cough; Vasculitis.

Professor Eleanor Molloy

Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health, Paediatrics; TTMI Strategic Advisor

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Research Areas: Neonatal inflammation and Neonatal encephalopathy

Professor Jacintha O'Sullivan

Professor in Translational Oncology and Education Lead for the Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute

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Research Areas: Gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases and cancers, Tumour microenvironment, Treatment resistance, Drug Discovery, Metabolism, inflammation, Angiogenesis, Hypoxia, inflammatory and cancer, Ex vivo models, Diagnostic platforms

Dr. Adriele Prina Mello

Ussher Assistant Professor in Translational Nanomedicine; TTMI Environmental Sustainability Manager

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Research Areas: Advanced Translational Research of NanoMedicine (from Pre-clinical to Clinical, Precision, Personalised, Targeted nanomedicine)

Dr. Niamh Ryan

Senior Research Fellow, Psychiatry; TTMI Engaged Research Hub Advisor

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Research Areas: Senior Research Fellow, Psychiatry; TTMI Engaged Research Hub Advisor

Dr. Daniela Tropea

Associate Professor, Psychiatry; TTMI Future Research Talent Advisor

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Research Areas: Schizophrenia and Rett Syndrome.

Professor Johannes Wagener

Associate Professor Consultant, Clinical Microbiology; TTMI Future Research Talent Advisor

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Research Areas: Antifungals; Biomarker development; Invasive fungal infections, aspergillosis, candidiasis, aspergillus, candida.

Dr. Cilian Ó Maoldomhnaigh

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor

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Research Areas: Pediatric Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections; Human Airway Macrophages; Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C); Non-sinogenic Brain Infections; Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

TTMI Principal Investigators

Dr. Anne-Marie Baird

Research Fellow, TTMI

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Research Areas: Anticancer therapies; Asbestos; Biochemical Markers; Biological Markers; Biomedical Research Training; Cancer/Carcinogenesis; Disease Model; Drug discovery; Drug Resistance; Gene Expression; Gene Regulation

Dr. Martin Barr

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Liquid Biopsy; Lung Cancer; Non-small cell lung cancer, Anticancer therapies; Apoptosis and cancer; Biomarkers; Cancer Biology; Cancer chemotherapeutic drugs; Cancer genetics and cell biology.

Dr. Gareth Brady

Ussher Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Innate Immunity, Diagnostic / Screening Assays and Translational Immunology Studies.

Professor Aiden Corvin

Professor Consultant/Head of Discipline, Psychiatry

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Research Areas: Aetiology of mental illness, Cognitive dysfunction in psychotic disorders, Neurodegenerative diseases including schizophrenia & Alzheimers disease, Neurogenetics, Psychiatric genetics, Schizophrenia.

Professor Derek Doherty

Professor Emeritus, Immunology

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Research Areas: Cancer, virus, NKT cells, γδ T cells, dendritic cells, B cells, cytokines, cytotoxicity, immunology.

Professor Padraic Fallon

Professor of Translational Immunology, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Allergies; Animal Models; Asthma; Cytokine Responses; Disease models; Experimental Colitis; Helminths; Immunotherapies; Infection; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Maternal Fetal Interface; Parasites; Transgenic mice

Dr. Kathy Gately

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: CTCs, ctDNA, 3D models, Patient-Derived Organoids (PDOs), lung cancer, drug resistance, biomarker discovery.

Professor Joseph Keane

Professor of Medicine, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Apoptosis; Host, Pathogen interactions; Infectious diseases; Innate immunology; Lung Cancer; Medicine; Respiratory System

Professor Aideen Long

Principal Investigator

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Research Areas: T cell; T cell activation; T cell migration.

Dr. Niamh Lynam-Lennon

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Surgery

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Research Areas: Gastrointestinal Cancer, Radioresistance, Predictive Biomarkers, Energy Metabolism, microRNA, Complement System

Professor Joanne Lysaght

Professor In, Surgery

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Research Areas: Cancer, Immunology, Immunotherapy, T cells, Tumour Microenvironment, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy.

Professor Stephen Maher

Professor In, Surgery

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Research Areas: Pancreatic cancer, Oesophageal cancer, radiotherapy, radiobiology, chemotherapy, microRNAs, drug trafficking/flux, multi-omics, pancreatic cystic lesions, biobank.

Professor Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris

Don Panoz Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Research Areas: Development and manufacture of cell therapies, with a strong emphasis on metabolomics.

Professor Laure Marignol

Professor In Radiation Biology, Radiation Therapy

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Research Areas: Cancer, radiation, sex differences, Cas9, biomarkers, treatment.

Dr. Cara Martin

Associate Professor, Histopathology

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Research Areas: Human Papilloma virus, Cancer Screening, Vaccination, Cancer Prevention, Biomarkers, Digital Cytology, RAMAN Spectroscopy

Dr. Tony Mc Elligott

Assistant Professor in Molecular Haematology

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Research Areas: Blood cancer; haematological malignancies; tumour microenvironment; cell therapy; drug discovery; myeloma; leukaemia, lymphoma; novel targets; haematopoietic stem cells.

Professor Ross Mc Manus

Professor in Molecular Medicine, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Chronic inflamation; Coeliac disease; Genetics of inflammatory disease; Genomic structure and function; Inflammatory bowel disease; Psoriasis, Sepsis.

Dr. Dania Movia

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Radiation Therapy

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Research Areas: Lung cancer; Nanomedicine; 3D culture; Animal-free research

Dr. Shigeki Nakagome

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

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Research Areas: Bioinformatics; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary genetics; Genomics; Host-pathogen interaction; Human Population Genetics; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; microbiome

Dr. Cliona Ni Cheallaigh

Associate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Age related diseases; memory and other cognitive processes; Gerontology; Host, Pathogen interactions; Innate immunology; Intra and intercellular signalling; Sociological influences on health.

Dr. Lucy Norris

Senior Exp Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Research Areas: Venous Thromboembolism, Cancer, Thrombosis, Prophylaxis, LMWH, Coagulation, Ovarian Neoplasms, Haemostasis

Professor John O'Leary

Professor Consultant, Histopathology

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Research Areas: Biomarkers of disease; Cervical Cancer; Development of array technologies; Molecular pathology; Prostate cancer.

Dr. Mary O'Sullivan

Research Fellow, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, macrophage, dendritic cell, autophagy, apoptosis, host-pathogen interactions, metabolism

Professor Maureen J O'Sullivan

Consultant Paediatric Pathologist/Clinic, Paediatrics

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Research Areas: Paediatric; Solid Cancer; Chromosomal translocation; Epigenetics; Chromatin; Kidney; Sarcoma; Polycomb

Dr. Sharon O'Toole

Senior Exp Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Research Areas: Gynaecological cancer, ovarian cancer, biomarker, cancer metastasis, circulating tumour cells, PPI.

Professor Nicki Panoskaltsis

Professor of Personalised Therapeutics, Pharmacy

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Research Areas: Hemato-Oncology; Acute myeloid leukemia; Human 3D Organoids

Dr. Graham Pidgeon

Associate Professor, Surgery

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Research Areas: Angiogenesis; Anticancer therapies; Apoptosis; Apoptosis, molecular control; Biological Markers; Breast cancer; Cancer Biology; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis.

Dr. Julie Renwick

Assistant Professor, Clinical Microbiology

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Research Areas: Aspergillus-fumigatus; Cystic fibrosis; Diagnostics; Lower respiratory-tract; Microbiology; Microbiome; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Respiratory infection.

Professor Mathias Senge

Chair of Organic Chemistry

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Research Areas: Porphyrins, medicinal chemistry, photosensitizer, photodynamic cancer therapy, antimicrobials, photomedicine, bioisosteres, hydrogels, organic chemistry, drug design.

Professor Orla Sheils

Professor in Molecular Diagnostics, Histopathology

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Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Bioinformatics; Biomedical ethics; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis; Cervical cancer; Diagnostics; Prostate cancer

Dr. Sinéad Smith

Ussher Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine

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Research Areas: Helicobacter pylori, antimicrobial resistance, infection & immunity.

Professor Patrick Walsh

Professor in Paediatric Immunology

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Research Areas: Crohn’s, colitis, psoriasis, Coeliac, Cytokines, IL-1 family, barrier tissue sites