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Name / Research Profile Link	Position	School / Institute	Subject Area
Prof Manus Biggs	Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 1: fundamental research 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	Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1: research focuses on investigating mechanisms of genomic instability in breast cancer.
Dr Aoife Boyd	Senior Lecturer	School of Natural Science	Pillar 1: The Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group investigates 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	Associate Professor	School of Medicine and School of Engineering	Pillar 1: research is centred 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	Research Fellow	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 2: research focuses on the application of cutting-edge research and technologies for meeting needs in agriculture and agrifood sectors.
Dr Liam Burke	Associate Professor	School of Medicine	Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research focuses on Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria, Virulent zoonotic pathogens, One Health Genomics, Molecular diagnostics and Public health.
Dr Peter Carr	Associate Professor	School of Nursing and Widwifry	Pillar 2: research focus is 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	Senior Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: research focus 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	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. Research focus on of soft interfaces, such as those between different liquids (e.g. oil and water), membranes, or soft surfaces.
Dr. Cynthia Coleman	Associate Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies. Research focus 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	Assistant Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focuses on on experimental testing, imaging, and computational modelling of brain tissue.
Dr Jane Conway	Lecturer	School of Psychology	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge: Disorders of the Bain and Nervous System.
Prof Peter Corcoran	Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: Director of C3I (Center for Computational, Cognitive and Connected Imaging).
Prof John Dalton	Professor	School of Natural Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research focuses on Parasitology Liver Fluke Disease Schistosomiasis and other tropical worms Malaria Covid-19 Sepsis and other inflammatory conditions.
Prof Andrew Daly	Associate Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: Research focuses on research focuses on bioprinting tissue and organ models with advanced physiological structure and function.
Prof Michael Conall Dennedy	Senior Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. Research interests centre on the diagnosis, pathogenesis and management of functional adrenal tumours, both benign and malignant.
Prof Michel Destrade	Professor	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. Research focuses in applying the principles of Continuum Mechanics to the modelling of soft matter, including biological tissues and gels.
Prof Peter Dockery	Professor	Anatomy, School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenges: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies, Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System and Infection and Immunity. Research focus on Stereology Light and Electron Microscopies, Structure Function relationships in theHuman Endometrium and MyometriumStructure function relationships in the Nervous SystemBiomaterialsTissue Engineering.
Dr Helen Dodson	Senior Lecturer	School of Anatomy	Pillar 1: Research Focuses in how cells respond to DNA damage.
Dr Eimear Dolan	Associate Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 1: research group are designing medical implants to improve the therapeutic efficacy and/or experience for people with living with long-term therapeutic needs.
Dr Sheila Donnelly	Senior Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Reseach focuses on Parasitology, the innate immune response, Host-parasite interactions, miRNA cross communication and Helminth-derived therapeutics.
Prof Gary Donohoe	Professor	School of Psychology	Pillar 1: 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	Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - 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	Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge- 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	Associate Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Research focus is to understand how genome integrity is maintained during cell division.
Dr Eoghan Dunne	Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: research focuses on relate to electrical impedance, dielectric and thermal properties as well as the application of electromagnetic-based ablation and electrical impedance imaging.
Dr Roisin Dwyer	Professor In Translational Science	School of Medicine and Surgery	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: research focuses on novel approaches to breast cancer detection and therapy.
Dr Adnan Elahi	Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: 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	Associate Professor	School of Psychology	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Reseach focus is on in 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	Associate Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: research interests comprise Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Solid State Chemistry. Research activities in the area of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry are centered on the synthesis and study of anticancer metallodrugs.
Dr Stanislas Von Euw	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Research focus is 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	Associate Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1. Research focuses on on the regulation of plant development through epigenetic and chromatin mechanisms.
Dr Pau Farras	Senior Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. 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	Senior Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Chllenge - 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	Senior Lecturer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Science.	Pillar 2: 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	Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies and Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.
Dr Nichola Fitz-simon	Lecturer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 2: research focuses on statistical methods for the analysis of observational data.
Dr Andrew Flaus	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System.
Prof Uri Frank	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: research focus on fundamental questions in developmental biology and stem cell research, embryonic axis formation, regeneration, and cell fate stability.
Dr. James Gahan	Senior Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Early animal evolution with a particular focus on chromatin and gene regulation.
Prof Patrick Gillespie	Professor	School of Business and Economics	Pillar 2: research activity is focused 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	Associate Professor	School of Engineering and School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - 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	Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1: Research 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	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Research focus unfolded protein responseI, RE1Cell stress response pathways, Breast cancer, TNBCEndoplasmic reticulum stress.
Dr Sanjeev Gupta	Associate Professor	School of Medicine / Lambe Institute	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: Research focuses on folded protein response in cancer: regulation by microRNAs.
Dr Ananya Gupta	Associate Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: 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	Associate Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: research focuses on focuses on understanding and advancing traditional and next generation manufacturing techniques for metals, polymers and composites.
Dr Linda Howard	Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenges 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	Vascular Surgeon and Senior Research Fellow	Cúram	Pillar 2: research focuses on international endovascular device trials, and Multilayer Flow Modulater Global Regisrty, which observes clinical outcomes of the MFM device.
Dr Sinéad Hynes	Senior Lecturer	School of Health Sciences	Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focuses in the area of neurorehabiltation with people with multiple sclerosis, older adults, people with brain injury and people with dementia.
Dr Conor Judge	Senior Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1: primary focus is applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enhance patient care, particularly in the realm of chronic conditions like hypertension.
Dr Michelle Kilcoyne	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 2: research interests are in host-microbe interactions, immune response, bacterial polysaccharides and biofilms, and development of carbohydrate analytical methods and platforms for analytics.
Dr Andrea Kwakowsky	Associate Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Health Based Challenge - 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	Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - 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	Assistant Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: academic researcher and educator specialising in anatomy, biomaterials, and medical device development.
Dr Mihai Lomora	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focus is on nclude 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	Professor	School of Biologicals and Chemical Sciences.	Pillar 1: research focuses on Cancer Biology Cellular responses to DNA damage Cell cycle control.
Dr Janna Luessing	Post Doctoral Researcher	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: research focus is to elucidate 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	Professor	School of Computer Science	Pillar 2: research focuses on focused 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	Lecturer	School of Business and Economics	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - 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. Methods for early value assessment in healthcare.
Prof Bin Mai	Assistant Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: research focuses in delivering novel nanomaterials to tackle different diseases with a strong focus on cancer.
Dr Karl McCullagh	Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies. Research focuses on Muscle biology and plasticity Neuromuscular diseases, Muscular Dystrophy,Gene therapy Adeno-associated virus gene delivery in vivo Electrogene transfer.
Prof Laoise McNamara	Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - 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	Lecturer	School of Anatomy	Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focus is on spinal cord repair, glial scarring, neurotrophic factors,developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology, gene therapy, scaffolds for spinal cord tissue engineering.
Prof Brian McStay	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1. Research focuses on Human acrocentric chromosomes, Chromosomal context of human NORs, Nucleolar formation and organisation and Genome stability of rDNA arrays.
Dr Olivia McDermott	Associate Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 2: Medtech Research focus.
Dr Brian McDonagh	Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1: 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	Professor	Consultant Anaesthetist and Honorary Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine	Pillar 2: Treatment and Management of Pain.
Dr. Eoin McEvoy	Senior Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 1: Computational cancer mechanobiology.
Dr Declan McKernan	Associate Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1: 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	Senior Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 2: Consultant Intensivist.
Dr Mihailo Mirkovic	Senior Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: research focus on involves 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	Professor	School of Psychology	Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research focuses on understanding and changing medication taking behaviour.
Prof Ciaran Morrison	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Research is focussed on how centrioles and cilia are assembled and function during the cell cycle.
Dr Kevin Moerman	Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 2. 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	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar2, Health Based Challenge - 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).	Pillar 1, Pillar2, Health Based Challenge - 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	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar1, Health Based Challenge - Inection and Immunity. Research focused on research is concerned with using organic synthesis to prepare new glycomimetic ligands for various lectins.
Prof John Newell	Professor	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 2: research focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods to clinical and molecular biological data.
Prof Tim O'Brien	Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1: Clinical trials for peripheral vascular disease.
Dr Pilib Ó'Broin	Associate Professor	School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenges - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies, Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System, Infection and Immunity. Research isprimarily interested in the development and application of statisticalmachine learning methods with a particular focus on genomics applications in immunology, cancer and neuroscience.
Prof Conor O'Byrne	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research focus on bacterial food-borne pathogens; Listeria monocytogenes; Escherichia coli Molecular responses to stress.
Prof Gerard O'Connor	Professor	School of Natural Sciences and Physics	Pillar 2- research focuses on centre on laser-enabled additive and subtractive manufacturing at the interface of printed electronics and biomaterials.
Dr Joanne O'Dwyer	Senior Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Medical Devices	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: 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	Personal Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pilla1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research is focused 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	Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 2: research interests are in Digital Health, Clinical Medicine, MedTech, AI, IOT, Innovation, Healthcare.
Dr Neil O'Leary	Lecturer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 2: research interests are in 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	Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity. Research focus on Cell therapy, Gene therapy, Recombinant protein therapy, SepsisAcute Respiratory Distress, SyndromeNebulisation, Pathogen diagnosis and monitoring, Hypercapnic acidosis and cell signalling Immunology.
Dr Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou	Associate Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: research focus on Synthesis and characterisation of metal-organic frameworks with biomedical or environmental applications.
Prof Leo Quinlan	Professor in Reseach Scholarship	Head of School of Pharmacy and Medical Devices	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge: research focus on the interface between human physiology and medical device development with a particular emphasis on electrophysiology and neuromodulation.
Dr Nathan Quinlan	Senior Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: 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	Lecturer	School of Computer Science	Pillar 1: 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	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciencese	Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Infection and Immunity.
Prof Thomas Ritter	Professor	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - 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	Senior Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1 and Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focus 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	Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: finite element modelling, biomechanics, cell mechanics, computational modelling, numerical modelling, composite mechanics, mechanical and material testing and experiments, material constitutive models.
Prof Aideen Ryan	Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge: Research focus is to understand barriers to the effective use of immunotherapy in advanced colon cancer.
Dr Takfarinas Saber	Lecturer	School of Computer Science	Pillar 2: Research focused on engineering of efficient and trustworthy complex software systems.
Prof Aram Saeed	Professor	School of Pharmacy and Medical Science	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: Research focuses on translational and ocular therapeutics and medical devices.
Prof Afshin Samali	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses to gain better understanding of human diseases, such as cancer and neurodegeneration.
Dr Davood Roshan Sangachin	Lecturer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 2: Longitudinal analysis of clinical biomarkers.
Prof Corrado Santocanale	Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Research focus on is studying the mechanisms that regulate genome replication in human cells with particular emphasis on the Cell Division Cycle 7 kinase (CDC7).
Prof Cathal Seoighe	Professor	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. Research focus 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	Lecturer	School of Nursing and Midwifery	Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies. 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	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1: Development and evolution of vertebrate nervous and sensory systems.
Dr Patricia Scully	Senior Lecturer	School of Natural Sciences	Pillar 2: Research focuses on optical sensing, optical fibre technology, laser processing, optical materials, carbon nanomaterials and sensor systems.
Dr Amir Shafat	Senior Lecturer	School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences	Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies. Research focus on Diabetes.
Dr Paul Sheridan	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Health Based Challenge - 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	Professor	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies. Rearch focus is on longitudinal data analysis, functional data analysis, genomics and data science.
Dr Alanna Stanley	Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2: 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	Assistant Professor	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2. Research focused on death receptor signalling. We study the mechanism of signal transduction in order to understand the driving forces of cancer progression and identify targets for therapy. Based on this information we are developing novel therapeutics that can block pro-survival signalling and thus channel signal transduction towards apoptosis.
Dr Kerry Thompson	Imaging Scientist Fellow and Assistant Prof Anatomy	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challange: Light Microscopy, Electron Microscopy Cell Biology, Histology Digital Pathology, Image Analysis, Open Science, Open Hardware, Open Software, Outreach and Education.
Dr Mingming Tong	Lecturer	School of Engineering	Pillar 2: Research focus is in the field of computational modelling of material processing with major interests in fluid flow and heat transfer, microstructure, and mechanical responses.
Dr Ihsan Ullah	Lecturer	School of Computer Science	Pillar 2: Research primarily focuses on the development of lightweight Deep Neural Network architectures, including Pyramidal Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
Dr Dave Veerasingam	Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon	School of Medicine	Pillar 2. Research focus on cardiovascular disease.
Prof Ted Vaughan	Professor	School of Engineering	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies: Biomedical Engineering.
Dr Gregory Wheeler	Lecturer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Pillar , Health Based Challenge - Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System. Research focus on Bioinformatics.
Dr Katarzyna Whysall	Senior Lecturer	School of Medicine	Pillar 1, Health Based Challenge - Chronic Musculoskeletal Pathologies and 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	Lecturer	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Health Based Challenge - 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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