CSFP Alumni

Prof Aoife Lowery

Associate Professor & Consultant Surgeon at - NUI Galway & Galway University Hospital

Alumni Update

Thesis Title: Analysis of MicroRNA Expression and Function in Human Breast Cancer

Dr Aonghus O'Loughlin

Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospitals and Bons Secours Hospital, Galway.

Thesis Title: Novel Cell-Based Approaches in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Prof Gerard Curley

Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; Head of Anaesthesia, Beaumont Hospital, RCSI

Alumni Update

Thesis Title: Investigation of the Mechanisms of Repair Following Ventilator Induced Lung Injury and the Potential for Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Enhance the Repair Process

Dr Mark Coyne

Assistant Professor In Clinical Pharmacology, UCD School of Medicine & Medical Scienceand Therapeutics & Consultant in Haematology, Mater Private Hospital

Thesis Title: Examining a new class of dual CDC7/CDK9 inhibitors, mechanisms of proliferation, and proliferation-based stratification in myeloma

Dr Damian McCartan

Consultant Breast and General Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital

Thesis Title: Identifying New Transcriptional Targets for SRC-1 in Breast Cancer

Dr Finian O'Brien

Vice Dean for Teaching and Learning, RCSI and UCD Malaysia Campus (RUMC)

Thesis Title: Neuroimaging of Psychiatric Disorder

Dr Mazen Al-Alawi

Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine, Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan

Thesis Title: The Role of Lipoxin A4 in Regulating Ion Transport and Airway Surface Liquid Dynamics in Cystic Fibrosis

Dr Sanjay Chotirmall

Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College, London

Alumni Update

Thesis Title: The role of Estrogen in Cystic Fibrosis

Dr David Prichard

Senior Associate Consultant Mayo Clinic Health System, La Crosse and Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Thesis Title: Ursodeoxycholic Acid – a Molecular Modulator of the Inflammation-Cancer Sequence in the Oesophagus

Consultant Haematologist, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin / Consultant Haematologist and Director of Laboratory Medicine Rotunda Hospital, Dublin / Senior Clinical Lecturer (UCD) / Co-Director, SPHERE Research Group, UCD Conway Institute

Alumni Update

Thesis Title: Generation and Characterisation of Activated Protein C variants with Altered Functional Properties and Enhanced Therapeutic Potential

Dr Jane McGrath

Senior Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/ Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Thesis Title: Brain Structure, Function and Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr Niall Conlon

Head of Department of Immunology & Consultant Immunologist, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Thesis Title: The association of variations in the immune response with the development of idiopathic bronchiectasis.

Dr James Ryan

Consultant Endocrinologist Bons Secour Health System and Mater Private Hospital

Thesis Title: Cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance due to the r482w mutation of the lmna gene in familial partial lipodystrophy, Dunnigan variety (fpld)

Dr John O'Sullivan

Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia

Thesis Title: Cardiovascular Biology

Dr Fergus McCarthy

Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Cork University Maternity Hospital and Associate Investigator, INFANT

Thesis Title: The Role of Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor Gamma in Normal Rat Pregnancy and an Animal Model of Pre-eclampsia

Dr Daniel Schmidt

Consultant Hepatologist and Liver Transplant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals

Thesis Title: Short interval change in Hepatitis C Hypervariable Region 1 in chronic infection Are there treatment windows in the envelope?

Dr Aidan Ryan

SpR Pathology QMUL, UK

Thesis Title: The Therapeutic Potential of Lipoxins in Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis

Dr Eoin Feeney

Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin

Alumni Update

Thesis Title: Molecular Mechansims of HIV-associated Metabolic Toxicities

Dr Patrick Collier

Staff Cardiologist, Assistant Professor Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Thesis Title: Myocardial Interstitial Disease in Patients at Risk for Heart Failure: Role in Diastolic Dysfunction, Cardiac Remodelling and Disease Progression