| PI Name | Research Area | Project Details - Please click for further information |
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| Anne Parle-McDermot |
Preventative Medicine, Folate |
The relevance of folate status for mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmic load |
| Donal O'Gorman |
Metabolic physiology |
The mechanisms of altered amino acid metabolism in individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes before and after a 12-week lifestyle intervention |
| Jens Ducrée |
Microfluidic 'Lab-on-a-chip' technologies |
The research within the scope of this project will focus on the implementation of symptom-specific disease panels comprising of a range of tests to be run on on a single, integrated "lab-on-a-disc" systems |
| Noel McCaffrey |
MedEx - chronic illness rehabilitation programme |
It is proposed to carry out a robust and critical evaluation of MedEx |
| Norma O'Donovan |
Development of novel therapeutics for breast cancer |
Biomarker evaluation in locally advanced HER2 positive breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab with or without lapatinib |
| Owen Clarkin |
Medical Devices |
In this project, a novel injectable hydrogel will be produced that will have properties suitable for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, among other applications |
| Paul Cahill |
Vascular Biology & Therapeutics |
Magnetic Nanoparticle delivery of novel therapeutics to bare metal stents for the treatment of in-stent restenosis |
| Robert O'Connor |
Cellular Biotechnology, cancer treatment |
This project will focus on investigating predictive markers of breast cancer treatment response. In particular evalating response to new targeted therapies such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies |
| Robert O'Connor |
Pancreatic cancer research |
The project involves the characterisation of primary cell culture cell bank created from first generation pancreatic xeno-patients |
| Rosaleen McElvaney |
Child Abuse |
Project on child sexual abuse disclosures in collaboration with a number of hopsitals and agencies |
| Sandra O'Neill |
Infectious and non-communicable diseases |
The project is to identify mechanisms of cellular crosstalk between novel innate immune cell populations |
| Sarahjane Belton |
Childhood Physical Activity |
The project will involve working on the Y-PATH 'Youth- Physical Activity Towards Health' research programme |
| Stella Vlachou |
Behavioural Neruoscience |
The project aims to assess the effects of nicotine and/or cannabinoid exposure during adolescence on impulsivity levels, and/or reward/reinforcement, and vice versa, during adulthood in high and low impulsive Sprague- Dawley rats |
