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Name / Research Profile Link	Pillar / Health Based Challenge (HBC)	Subject Area
Prof Manus Biggs	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses is in the fields of electrically active nanotechnologies in regenerative medicine, biodegradable biosensors, tissue engineering and mechanobiology and applied research in the area of medical implant design.
Dr Emer Burke	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on investigating mechanisms of genomic instability in breast cancer.
Dr Aoife Boyd	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on the interactions between bacteria and their human and animal hosts. The Research advances knowledge and understanding of how bacteria colonise the host and cause disease.
Dr Meadhbh Brennan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs), MSC‐secreted factors, particularly extracellular vesicles (EVs) and the physical and chemical cues that can regulate their secretion and immunomodulatory roles.
Dr Galina Brychkova	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the application of cutting-edge research and technologies for meeting needs in agriculture and agrifood sectors.
Dr Liam Burke	HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria, Virulent zoonotic pathogens, One Health Genomics, Molecular diagnostics and Public health.
Dr Peter Carr	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on reducing insertion and post-insertion failure rates of peripheral intravenous catheters, reducing central vascular access device failure, efficacy of Vascular Access Teams and exploring the evidence base and synthesis of vascular access science.
Dr Michael Carty	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on responses of human cells to DNA damage, in particular following expousre to ultraviolet radiation and platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs; Genome instability; the POLH gene and DNA polymerase eta; PIKK kinases and Replication protein A phosphorylation after DNA damage; DNA damage responses in mesenchymal stem cells; responses to long wavelength UVA radiation in melanocytes.
Dr David Cheung	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on soft interfaces, such as those between different liquids (e.g. oil and water), membranes, or soft surfaces.
Dr. Cynthia Coleman	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Research focuses on Diabetes Induced Osteopathy, Bone Fracture Repair, Cartilage Repair, Skeletal Development, Joint Development, Patient Perceptions of Diabetes-Induced Osteopathy. Impact of Diabetes on the Outcome of Fragility Fracture Procedures, Coral as a Bone Substitute.
Dr Jamie Concannon	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on on experimental testing, imaging, and computational modelling of brain tissue.
Dr Jane Conway	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorders of the Bain and Nervous System.	Research focuses on the socio-cognitive ability to represent others’ minds and their mental states, and she is especially interested in studying individual differences in this ability.
Prof Peter Corcoran	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on computational, cognitive and connected imaging.
Prof John Dalton	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on Parasitology Liver Fluke Disease Schistosomiasis and other tropical worms Malaria Covid-19 Sepsis and other inflammatory conditions.
Dr Andrew Daly	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on bioprinting tissue and organ models with advanced physiological structure and function.
Prof Michael Conall Dennedy	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the diagnosis, pathogenesis and management of functional adrenal tumours, both benign and malignant.
Prof Michel Destrade	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses in applying the principles of Continuum Mechanics to the modelling of soft matter, including biological tissues and gels.
Prof Peter Dockery	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies, Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System and HBC - Infection and Immunity.	Research focuses on Stereology Light and Electron Microscopies, Structure Function relationships in theHuman Endometrium and MyometriumStructure function relationships in the Nervous SystemBiomaterialsTissue Engineering.
Dr Helen Dodson	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research Focuses on how cells respond to DNA damage.
Dr Eimear Dolan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on designing medical implants to improve the therapeutic efficacy and/or experience for people with living with long-term therapeutic needs.
Dr Sheila Donnelly	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Infection and Immunity.	Reseach focuses on Parasitology, the innate immune response, Host-parasite interactions, miRNA cross communication and Helminth-derived therapeutics.
Prof Gary Donohoe	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on the genetic and neural basis of cognitive deficits associated with psychosis, the development of therapeutic programs for overcoming these deficits, and development of psychological interventions for young adults more broadly.
Prof Eilis Dowd	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Disorders of the brain and nervous system.	Research focuses on the potential of biomaterials to enhance brain repair for Parkinson’s Disease.
Prof Karen Doyle	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC- Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.	Research focuses on is on understanding neurovascular stress, the pathophysiology of stroke and the characteristics of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) blood clots.
Dr Elaine Dunleavy	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focus on how genome integrity is maintained during cell division.
Dr Eoghan Dunne	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on electrical impedance, dielectric and thermal properties as well as the application of electromagnetic-based ablation and electrical impedance imaging.
Dr Roisin Dwyer	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on novel approaches to breast cancer detection and therapy.
Dr Adnan Elahi	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on smart devices, biosensors for remote patient monitoring; novel and personalised therapeutics using RFMicrowave and Pulsed-Field Ablation; and AImachine learning for biomedical signals.
Dr Mark Elliott	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.	Reseach focuses on non-STEM and non-health related basic-science research which is concerned largely with the invention and testing of methods for examining the dynamics of psychological function.
Dr Andrea Erxleben	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry which are centered on the synthesis and study of anticancer metallodrugs.
Dr Stanislas Von Euw	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Research focuses on new approaches for fabricating biomimetic inorganic–organic hybrid materials, adopting an interdisciplinary framework with a strong focus on the interplay between biomineralization, crystal growth, tissue engineering, and analytical and materials chemistry.
Dr Sara Farrona	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on the regulation of plant development through epigenetic and chromatin mechanisms.
Dr Pau Farras	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on on the use of visible-light to drive chemical reactions, the preparation and study of organometallic complexes, materials and hybrid systems and their application in three main areas: Energy, Health and Life.
Dr Howard Oliver Fearnhead	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies.	Research focuses on investigating the idea that death-inducing caspases are far more versatile than previously thought. and the role of apoptosis in a range of different processes including cell differentiation, tissue repair, tumourigenesis and cancer therapy.
Dr John Ferguson	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the development of improved statistical methodology, with applications in several applied domains, such as medicine, population health and genetics.
Prof David Finn	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies and Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.	Research focuses on the affective and cognitive dimensions of pain, stress-pain interactions, and neuroinflammatory processes, with an emphasis on the endogenous cannabinoid system.
Dr Nichola Fitz-simon	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on statistical methods for the analysis of observational data.
Dr Andrew Flaus	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on chromosome biology and protein structure-function.
Prof Uri Frank	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on fundamental questions in developmental biology and stem cell research, embryonic axis formation, regeneration, and cell fate stability.
Dr. James Gahan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on early animal evolution with a particular focus on chromatin and gene regulation.
Prof Patrick Gillespie	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the application of the techniques of health economic evaluation and health technology assessment to inform health policy and healthcare practice.
Prof Catalina Vallejo Giraldo	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorder of the Brain and Nervous Sysetem	Research focuses on mechanobiology of the brain, investigating how alterations in spatial and geometrical cues shape cell–cell communication and how variations in available or restricted space drive global brain responses.
Prof Matthew Dallas Griffin	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on projects investigating the immunological mechanisms underlying kidney disease and organ transplant complications, the role of stem cell therapies in suppressing harmful immune responses, the immunomodulatory properties of active vitamin D compounds.
Prof Adrienne Gorman	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on unfolded protein response, RE1Cell stress response pathways, Breast cancer and TNBC Endoplasmic reticulum stress.
Dr Sanjeev Gupta	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on folded protein response in cancer regulation by microRNAs.
Dr Ananya Gupta	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on molecular mechanisms in cancer progression, miRNAs as biomarkers in Cancer prognosis and response to therapy Management and prevention of chemotherapy induced toxicity in Cancer treatment.
Prof Noel Harrison	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on understanding and advancing traditional and next generation manufacturing techniques for metals, polymers and composites.
Dr Linda Howard	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies and Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on understanding the changes that occur as stem cells differentiate and the mechanisms controlling cell fate specification, comapring stem cells isolated from older, unhealthy individuals with from those isolated from young healthy donors.
Ms Niamh Hynes	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on international endovascular device trials, and Multilayer Flow Modulater Global Regisrty, which observes clinical outcomes of the MFM device.
Dr Sinéad Hynes	HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.	Research focuses on neurorehabiltation with people with multiple sclerosis, older adults, people with brain injury and people with dementia.
Dr Conor Judge	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enhance patient care, particularly in the realm of chronic conditions like hypertension.
Dr Michelle Kilcoyne	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on host-microbe interactions, immune response, bacterial polysaccharides and biofilms, and development of carbohydrate analytical methods and platforms for analytics.
Dr Andrea Kwakowsky	HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on multi-disciplinary research that aims to transform the understanding of the pathological mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and find novel drug targets and therapeutic strategies.
Prof John Laffy	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on integrating clinical, translational, and laboratory research, focusing on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, and perioperative outcomes for major surgery patients.
Dr Ruth Levey	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on anatomy, biomaterials, and medical device development.
Dr Mihai Lomora	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on nature-inspired (bio)materials for the design of drug delivery systems and their interaction with (brain) organoids and organ-on-chip devices.
Prof Noel Lownes	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on Cancer Biology Cellular responses to DNA damage Cell cycle control.
Dr Janna Luessing	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on novel functions for two Zinc finger proteins in DNA repair. These proteins have been previously implicated in intellectual disability and viral infection.
Prof Michael Madden	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on new theoretical advances in machine learning and deep learning, motivated by important practical applications, on the basis that challenging applications foster novel algorithms which in turn enable new applications.
Dr Ronan Mahon	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on estimations of a cost-effectiveness threshold for new health technologies in Ireland, accounting for aspects of equity in health economic evaluation and methods for early value assessment in healthcare.
Prof Bin Mai	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on delivering novel nanomaterials to tackle different diseases with a strong focus on cancer.
Dr Karl McCullagh	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies.	Research focuses on muscle biology and plasticity neuromuscular diseases, muscular dystrophy, gene therapy and Adeno-associated virus gene delivery in vivo electrogene transfer.
Prof Laoise McNamara	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies.	Research focuses on delineating the normal mechanosensory and signalling mechanisms of bone cells, to determine whether bone tissue mechanics or mechanobiology are impaired during osteoporosis and developing in-vitro approaches that can enhance bone tissue regeneration and thereby advance treatment of bone pathologies.
Dr Siobhan McMahon	HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on spinal cord repair, glial scarring, neurotrophic factors, developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology, gene therapy, scaffolds for spinal cord tissue engineering.
Prof Brian McStay	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on Human acrocentric chromosomes, Chromosomal context of human NORs, Nucleolar formation and organisation and Genome stability of rDNA arrays.
Dr Olivia McDermott	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on Quality 4.0, Industry 4.0, Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence and Medtech Regulatory.
Dr Brian McDonagh	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on Redox signalling in response to endogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in a variety of cell and translational models particularly in skeletal muscle during exercise and ageing.
Prof John McDonnell	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the treatment and management of Pain.
Dr. Eoin McEvoy	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on computational celltissue mechanics and disease mechanobiology.
Dr Declan McKernan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on innate immunity, particularly the genetic, epigenetic, and biochemical regulation of pattern recognition receptors such as Toll-like (TLRs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs).
Dr Bairbre McNicolas	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on renal physiology, renal failure, nephrology and acute kidney injury.
Dr Mihailo Mirkovic	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on the interplay between stress, changes to RNA processing, and how do these phenomena drive chromosome instability and adaptation in fungi and is funded by the Wellcome Trust Career Development Award.
Prof Gerard Molloy	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on understanding and changing medication taking behaviour.
Prof Ciaran Morrison	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on how centrioles and cilia are assembled and function during the cell cycle.
Dr Kevin Moerman	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on Computational (bio)mechanics Computational Design Soft tissue biomechanics Finite Element Analysis Open source scientific software and hardware development Continuum mechanics Image-based modelling, meshing, and visualization Non-invasive imaging Biomechatronics, and robotics.
Professor Derek Morris	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar2 - Enabling Technology and Innovation HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.	Research focuses on the development of new gene discovery methods and their application to the identification of risk genes for complex disorders including psychosis (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder).
Prof Paul Murphy	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Inection and Immunity	Research focuses on using organic synthesis to prepare new glycomimetic ligands for various lectins.
Prof John Newell	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods to clinical and molecular biological data.
Prof Tim O'Brien	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on clinical trials for peripheral vascular disease.
Dr Pilib Ó'Broin	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on the development and application of statisticalmachine learning methods with a particular focus on genomics applications in immunology, cancer and neuroscience.
Prof Conor O'Byrne	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on bacterial food-borne pathogens; Listeria monocytogenes; Escherichia coli molecular responses to stress.
Prof Gerard O'Connor	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on centre on laser-enabled additive and subtractive manufacturing at the interface of printed electronics and biomaterials.
Dr Joanne O'Dwyer	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on improving treatments for chronic conditions such a diabetic eye disease and hypertension, by creating novel delivery systems for medicines.
Prof James P O'Gara	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on the identification and characterisation of new drug targets, from which new therapeutic interventions can be developed for the improved treatment of AMR and chronic infections.
Prof Derek O'Keeffe	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on digital health, clinical medicine, medtech, AI, IoT, innovation and healthcare.
Dr Neil O'Leary	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the design and analysis of clinical trials, multilevel modelling of clustered and longitudinal data, along with other applied research interests in causal inference in observational studies, survey techniques and missing data.
Dr Daniel Patrick O'Toole	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on cell therapy, gene therapy, recombinant protein therapy, sepsis, acute respiratory distress, pathogen diagnosis and monitoring and cell signalling Immunology.
Dr Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on synthesis and characterisation of metal-organic frameworks with biomedical or environmental applications.
Prof Leo Quinlan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies HBC - Disorders of the brain and nervous system	Research focuses on the interface between human physiology and medical device development with a particular emphasis on electrophysiology and neuromodulation.
Dr Nathan Quinlan	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on mesh-free particle methods for computational fluid dynamics, smoothed particle hydrodynamics and the finite volume particle method fluid dynamics in prosthetic heart valves, other medical devices and the respiratory system.
Dr Effirul Ramlan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on designing synthetic nucleic acid interfaces, including DNA and RNA nano-machines, capable of molecular-level information processing within biological systems.
Dr Kate Reddington	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity.	Research focuses on the development of innovative solutions for infectious disease diagnostics and public health microbiology.
Prof Thomas Ritter	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Infection and Immunity.	Research focuses on investigating the development of novel gene and cell therapies for immune-mediated diseases of the eye using immunomodulatory cells such as mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC), dendritic cells and regulatory T cells.
Dr Michelle Roche	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on enhancing understanding of the neurobiology underlying autism, mood disorders, pain and their interactions with the aim to identify novel therapeutic targets for these conditions.
Dr Will Ronan	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on finite element modelling, biomechanics, cell mechanics, computational modelling, numerical modelling, composite mechanics, mechanical and material testing and experiments, material constitutive models.
Prof Aideen Ryan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on understanding barriers to the effective use of immunotherapy in advanced colon cancer.
Dr Takfarinas Saber	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on engineering of efficient and trustworthy complex software systems.
Prof Aram Saeed	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on translational and ocular therapeutics and medical devices.
Prof Afshin Samali	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses to gain better understanding of human diseases, such as cancer and neurodegeneration.
Dr Davood Roshan Sangachin	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on longitudinal analysis of clinical biomarkers.
Prof Corrado Santocanale	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on studying the mechanisms that regulate genome replication in human cells with particular emphasis on the Cell Division Cycle 7 kinase (CDC7).
Prof Cathal Seoighe	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on modeling molecular biological data, including gene expression, alternative mRNA splicing and the evolution of viruses, in particular HIV-1. Application areas include epigenetics of colon cancer and the DNA damage response, genome assembly and annotation and applications of next-generation genomics in developmental biology.
Dr Duygu Sezgin	HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous system.	Research focuses on older people services, geriatrics, intermediate care, transitional care, integrated care, models of care, dementia, frailty, pre-frailty, chronic wounds, wound care, diabetes, diabetic foot ulcers, palliative care, health inequities, older workers, and ergonomics. research.
Dr Gerhard Schlosser	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery	Research focuses on the development and evolution of vertebrate nervous and sensory systems.
Dr Patricia Scully	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on optical sensing, optical fibre technology, laser processing, optical materials, carbon nanomaterials and sensor systems.
Dr Amir Shafat	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Research focuses on Gastroenterlogy and Diabetes.
Dr Paul Sheridan	HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on uses state-of-the-art genomics and experimental microbiology to improve our understanding of the microbial world and its influence on agriculture, environmental protection, and human health.
Prof Andrew Simpkin	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Rearch focuses on longitudinal data analysis, functional data analysis, genomics and data science.
Dr Alanna Stanley	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the integumentary system, with expertise in examining and quantifying structural changes. She is currently working on the designing a correlative light and electron microscopy imaging protocol for investigation of the tumour microenvironment in basal and squamous cell carcinoma.
Dr Eva Erzsebet Szegezdi	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on death receptor signalling, the mechanism of signal transduction in order to understand the driving forces of cancer progression and identify targets for therapy.
Dr Kerry Thompson	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Research focuses on light microscopy, electron microscopy, cell biology, histology, digital pathology, image analysis, open science, open hardware, open software, outreach and education.
Dr Mingming Tong	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on computational modelling of material processing with major interests in fluid flow and heat transfer, microstructure, and mechanical responses.
Dr Ihsan Ullah	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on the development of lightweight Deep Neural Network architectures, including Pyramidal Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks.
Dr Dave Veerasingam	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation	Research focuses on cardiovascular disease.
Prof Ted Vaughan	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies	Research focuses on fundamental and applied topics in orthopaedic and cardiovascular biomechanics.
Dr Gregory Wheeler	Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on Bioinformatics, cancer genomics and evolutionary biology.
Dr Katarzyna Whysall	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery HBC - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies HBC - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System	Research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms associated with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular deterioration during ageing and disease. We are interested in the role that microRNAs play in these disorders and are exploring the therapeutic and biomarker potential of microRNAs during ageing and disease.
Dr Merve Zeden	Pillar 1 - Fundamental Discovery Pillar 2 - Enabling Technologies and Innovation HBC - Infection and Immunity	Research focuses on staphylococcus aureus biology, antibiotic resistance in ESKAPE pathogens, and environmental stress responses, with focus on microbial genetics, bioinformatics, and high throughput methods.

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