TTMI Principal Investigators

Dr. Anne-Marie Baird

Research Fellow, TTMI

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