TTMI Management Team
- Prof. Mark LittleProfessor of Nephrology and Consultant Nephrologist; Director, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) Research Areas: ANCA Vasculitis, Autoimmune Disease, Inflammation, Immunology, Patient Registry, Biobanking, Biomarkers, Informatics, AI Digital Technology.
- Asst. Prof. Sharee BasdeoAssistant Professor in TB Immunology; TTMI Deputy Director & Space Committee Chair Research Areas: Human alveolar macrophage, monocytes, Th17 cells, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, vaccines, heterologous immunity, trained immunity, metabolism, epigenetics.
- Prof. Eleanor MolloyProfessor of Paediatrics & Child Health, Paediatrics; TTMI Strategic Advisor Research Areas: Neonatal inflammation and Neonatal encephalopathy.
- Prof. Stephen FinnConsultant Histopathologist and Principal Investigator; TTMI Strategic Advisor Research Areas: Lung, Prostate, Ovarian, Drug Resistance, Therapeutics, Biomarkers, non-coding RNA, circRNA, Digital Pathology, Molecular Patholog.
- Ussher Asst. Prof. Nollaig BourkeUssher Assistant Professor in InflammAgeing; TTMI Strategic & Future Research Talent Advisor Research Areas: Inflammation, Ageing, Interferons, Innate Immunity, Biological Age.
- Prof. Laura GleesonAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor Research Areas: Tuberculosis.
- Prof. Patrick MitchellSenior Lecturer Consultant, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor Research Areas: Management of complex airways and interstitial lung diseases; Severe Asthma; COPD; Interstitial lung disease; Sarcoidosis; Chronic Cough; Vasculitis.
- Dr. Cilian Ó MaoldomhnaighClinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine; TTMI Clinical Engagement Advisor Research Areas: Infectious disease and the immune system.
- Mr. Frank ManganBusiness Manager, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute Research Support Areas: TTMI Management.
- Ms. Lyn MarkeyBusiness Development Manager, Knowledge Exchange (KnEx); TTMI Business Development Advisor Research Support Areas: Business Development
- Asst. Prof. Adriele Prina-MelloUssher Assistant Professor in Translational Nanomedicine; TTMI Environmental Sustainability Manager Research Areas: Advanced Translational Research of NanoMedicine (from Pre-clinical to Clinical, Precision, Personalised, Targeted nanomedicine)
- Prof. Jacintha OSullivanProfessor in Translational Oncology and Education Lead for the Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute Research Areas: Gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases and cancers; Tumour microenvironment; Treatment resistance; Drug Discovery; Angiogenesis; Hypoxia ; Diagnostic platforms.
- Assoc. Prof. Johannes WagenerAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Microbiology; TTMI Future Research Talent Advisor Research Areas: Antifungals; Biomarker development; Invasive fungal infections, aspergillosis, candidiasis, aspergillus, candida.
- Assoc. Prof. Daniela TropeaAssociate Professor, Psychiatry; TTMI Future Research Talent Advisor Research Areas: Schizophrenia and Rett Syndrome.
- Dr. Niamh RyanSenior Research Fellow, Psychiatry; TTMI Engaged Research Hub Advisor Research Areas: Genomics; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Next Generation Sequencing; Gene Regulation.
- Dr. Gina LeischingResearch Assistant Professor; TTMI Engaged Research Hub Advisor Research Areas: Type I IFNs; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Immunometabolism; Tuberculosis.
- Dr. Eamon BreenOperations Manager, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute Research Support Areas: Head of Flow Cytometry.
- Ms. Mary CunneenBiobank Coordinator, Trinity Translational Medicines Institute Research Support Areas: Coordinator Biobank Services and Repositories.
TTMI Principal Investigators
- Prof. Aiden CorvinProfessor Consultant/Head of Discipline, Psychiatry Research Areas: Aetiology of mental illness, Cognitive dysfunction in psychotic disorders, Neurodegenerative diseases including schizophrenia & Alzheimers disease, Neurogenetics, Psychiatric genetics, Schizophrenia.
- Prof. Aideen LongPrincipal Investigator Research Areas: T cell; T cell activation; T cell migration.
- Dr. Anne-Marie BairdResearch 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
- Prof. Athanasios (Sakis) MantalarisDon Panoz Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Areas: Development and manufacture of cell therapies, with a strong emphasis on metabolomics.
- Asst. Prof. Cara MartinAssistant Professor in Molecular Pathology, Tumour Biology and Cancer Screening Research Areas: Human Papilloma virus,Cancer Screening, Vaccination, Cancer Prevention, Biomarkers, Digital Cytology, RAMAN Spectroscopy.
- Dr. Cliona Ni CheallaighAssociate Professor Consultant, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Age related diseases; memory and other cognitive processes; Gerontology; Host, Pathogen interactions; Innate immunology; Intra and intercellular signalling; Sociological influences on health.
- Asst. Prof. Dania MoviaAssistant Professor, Radiation Therapy Research Areas: Lung cancer; Nanomedicine; 3D culture; Animal-free research.
- Prof. Derek DohertyProfessor in Immunology Research Areas: Cancer, virus, NKT cells, γδ T cells, dendritic cells, B cells, cytokines, cytotoxicity, immunology.
- Asst. Prof. Gareth BradyUssher Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Innate Immunity, Diagnostic / Screening Assays and Translational Immunology Studies.
- Assoc. Prof. Graham PidgeonAssoc. Prof. Graham Pidgeon Research Areas: Angiogenesis; Anticancer therapies; Apoptosis; Apoptosis, molecular control; Biological Markers; Breast cancer; Cancer Biology; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis.
- Assoc. Prof. Joanne LysaghtAssociate Professor, Surgery Research Areas: Cancer, Immunology, Immunotherapy, T cells, Tumour Microenvironment, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy.
- Prof. John OLearyChair of Pathology, Trinity College Dublin Research Areas: Biomarkers of disease; Cervical Cancer; Development of array technologies; Molecular pathology; Prostate cancer.
- Prof. Joseph KeaneProfessor of Medicine, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Apoptosis; Host, Pathogen interactions; Infectious diseases; Innate immunology; Lung Cancer; Medicine; Respiratory System.
- Asst. Prof. Julie RenwickAssistant Professor, Clinical Microbiology Research Areas: Aspergillus-fumigatus; Cystic fibrosis; Diagnostics; Lower respiratory-tract; Microbiology; Microbiome; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Respiratory infection.
- Dr. Kathy GatelyClinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: CTCs, ctDNA, 3D models, Patient-Derived Organoids (PDOs), lung cancer, drug resistance, biomarker discovery.
- Prof. Laure MarignolProfessor in Radiation Biology Research Areas: Cancer, radiation, sex differences, Cas9, biomarkers, treatment.
- Dr. Lucy NorrisSenior Exp Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research Areas: Venous Thromboembolism, Cancer, Thrombosis, Prophylaxis, LMWH, Coagulation, Ovarian Neoplasms, Haemostasis.
- Dr. Martin BarrClinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine 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. Mary OSullivanResearch Fellow, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, macrophage, dendritic cell, autophagy, apoptosis, host-pathogen interactions, metabolism.
- Prof. Mathias SengeChair of Organic Chemistry Research Areas: Porphyrins, medicinal chemistry, photosensitizer, photodynamic cancer therapy, antimicrobials, photomedicine, bioisosteres, hydrogels, organic chemistry, drug design.
- Prof. Maureen O’SullivanConsultant Paediatric Pathologist/Clinic, Paediatrics Research Areas: Paediatric; Solid Cancer; Chromosomal translocation; Epigenetics; Chromatin; Kidney; Sarcoma; Polycomb.
- Dr. Niamh Lynam-LennonResearch Assistant Professor, Surgery Research Areas: Gastrointestinal Cancer, Radioresistance, Predictive Biomarkers, Energy Metabolism, microRNA, Complement System.
- Prof. Nicki PanoskaltsisProfessor in Personalised Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Areas: Hemato-Oncology; Acute myeloid leukemia; Human 3D Organoids.
- Prof. Orla SheilsProfessor in Molecular Diagnostics, Histopathology Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Bioinformatics; Biomedical ethics; Cancer genetics and cell biology including metastasis; Cervical cancer; Diagnostics; Prostate cancer.
- Prof. Padraic FallonProfessor of Translational Immunology, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Allergies; ALLERGY; Animal Models; ANIMAL-MODELS; Asthma; CYTOKINE RESPONSES; DISEASE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS; Helminths; Immunotherapies; INFECTION; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE; Parasites; Transgenic Mice.
- Assoc. Prof. Patrick WalshAssociate Professor in Paediatric Immunology Research Areas: Crohn’s, colitis, psoriasis, Coeliac, Cytokines, IL-1 family, barrier tissue sites.
- Prof. Ross McManusProfessor in Molecular Medicine, Clinical Medicine Research Areas: Autoimmunity; Chronic inflamation; Coeliac disease; Genetics of inflammatory disease; Genomic structure and function; Inflammatory bowel disease; Psoriasis, Sepsis.
- Dr. Sharon O’TooleSenior Exp. Officer Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research Areas: Gynaecological cancer, ovarian cancer, biomarker, cancer metastasis, circulating tumour cells, PPI.
- Asst. Prof. Shigeki NakagomeAssistant Professor, Psychiatry Research Areas: Bioinformatics; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary genetics; Genomics; Host-pathogen interaction; Human Population Genetics; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; microbiome.
- Ussher Asst. Prof. Sinead SmithUssher Assistant Professor in Applied & Translational Medicine Research Areas: Helicobacter pylori, antimicrobial resistance, infection & immunity.
- Assoc. Prof. Stephen G. MaherAssociate Professor in Translational Oncology Research Areas: Pancreatic cancer, Oesophageal cancer, radiotherapy, radiobiology, chemotherapy, microRNAs, drug trafficking/flux, multi-omics, pancreatic cystic lesions, biobank.
- Asst. Prof. Tony Mc ElligottBone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust Assistant Professor in Molecular Haematology Research Areas: Blood cancer; haematological malignancies; tumour microenvironment; cell therapy; drug discovery; myeloma; leukaemia, lymphoma; novel targets; haematopoietic stem cells.