|
|
|
|
Life Sciences Committee
| Member |
Organisation |
| Professor T Clive Lee, Chair |
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
| Dr Jacqueline O'Connor, Secretary |
University of Ulster |
| Professor Richard O'Kennedy, Vice Chair |
Dublin City University |
| Professor Alex Evans |
University College Dublin |
| Professor Clive Williams, MRIA |
Trinity College Dublin |
| Professor Sean Doyle |
National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| Professor Noel Lowndes |
National University of Ireland, Galway |
| Dr Rosemary O'Connor |
University College Cork |
| Professor Dick FitzGerald |
University of Limerick |
| Professor Aaron Maule |
Queen's University Belfast |
| Professor A. Bjourson |
University of Ulster |
| Professor S McKeown |
University of Ulster |
| Dr Shirley O'Dea |
National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| Professor Tom Bolger |
University College Dublin |
| Professor Brian MacCraith, MRIA |
University College Dublin |
| Professor Brian Harvey, MRIA |
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
| Dr Anne Brady |
Shire Pharmaceuticals |
| Professor Paul Engel |
University College Dublin |
| |
Professor Thomas
Bolger is a Science graduate from University College
Dublin. Having completed a Higher Diploma in Education he gained
a Ph. D. in Agricultural Zoology and later studied computer modelling
at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently Head of the Department
of Zoology at UCD where he has been a member of staff since 1981.
His primary research interests are in the effects of global change
on terrestrial biodiversity and nutrient dynamics in soil systems.
He has been involved with EU projects in these areas since 1988
and, in 1997, he was a Fulbright Scholar, at the Institute of
Ecology, University of Georgia, examining the relationship between
biodiversity and ecosystem function. He also has a particular
interest in experimental design and statistical models and has
published in these areas. He is a subject editor for Soil Biology
and Biochemistry and a member of the editorial board of four other
journals. |
| |
|
|
| Professor Paul Engel
is an enzymologist/protein engineer. Educated in Hong Kong and
then as a biochemist at Oxford, he did a D. Phil. in enzyme kinetics
and a post-doc. on flavoproteins as a Fulbright Scholar at the
University of Michigan. He returned to Sheffield as Lecturer in
Biochemistry in 1970, becoming a Reader in 1984 and founding Director
of the inter-disciplinary Krebs Institute. In a 2-year interlude
he became Programme Manager for the UK’s SERC Biotechnology
Directorate’s pioneering ‘Protein Engineering Club’
experiment in state/industry co-funding. Following a Royal Society
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship back at Sheffield and a spell
as Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, he took
up the Chair of Biochemistry at UCD in 1994. With Professors Michael
Ryan and Hugh Brady he spearheaded UCD’s successful bid
for PRTLI funding of the Conway Institute, moving Biochemistry
from its faded 18 th century mansion to a modern purpose-built
research building. Supported by an SFI Fellowship Award (2006),
Prof. Engel continues to focus on diverse aspects of oxidative
enzymes, with emphasis on engineering novel biocatalysts, understanding
inter-subunit communication in allosteric enzymes, and explaining
biochemical defects in enzyme deficiency diseases at a molecular
level. Paul Engel has taken a keen interest in public awareness
of science, promoting an annual ‘Merville Lay Seminar’
Competition for Ph. D. students (now ‘Accesscience’)
and an associated poster competition, the best going up on the
DART. Finally, he was much involved in UCD’s effort through
the 1990’s to establish constructive, intelligent university
quality assurance procedures contrasting with the punitive methods
of the UK. Paul is an elected member of UCD’s Governing
Authority. Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2001,
he is also a member of Council. |
| |
|
 |
Professor Brian Harvey
obtained his PhD at UCD in 1982 and spent the following 12 years
in France where he became director of research at the CNRS molecular
cell biology labs in Villefranche-sur-mer. In 1993 he returned
to Ireland to take up the Chair of Cell Physiology at UCC and
direct the Wellcome Trust Cellular Physiology Research Unit. From
1998-2002 he was vice-president for research at UCC and co-ordinated
UCC’s successful PRTLI €130M funded infrastructural
programmes. In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Molecular Medicine
at RCSI and director of the Charitable Infirmary Trust Molecular
Medicine Laboratories at Beaumont Hospital. His research programmes
are focussed on rapid responses to steroid hormones in kidney,
lung and intestine. |
| |
|
 |
Professor Clive Lee
has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland since 2002 and Professor
of Anatomy in the Royal Hibernian Academy since 2007. He is Visiting
Professor of Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering in Trinity College
Dublin where he is also Chair of the Executive Committee of the
Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. A graduate in Physiology (1981)
and Medicine (1984), he obtained his MSc in Anatomy (1988) and
PhD (1995) and MD (1997) in Bone Biomechanics. He was awarded
a Fulbright Scholarship to Harvard Medical School, 1995-96. He
is a Fellow of the Dublin and Edinburgh Royal Colleges of Surgeons
and of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland where he is a Chartered
Engineer. His main research is in microdamage detection and bone
remodelling and in 2010 he received the Samuel Haughton Silver
Medal from the Section of Bioengineering, RAMI, and will be conferred
with his ScD. |
| |
|
.jpg) |
Dr
Jacqueline O'Connor has been a lecturer in Nutritional
Biochemistry since 2001 and has been Associate Head of School,
Biomedical Sciences in the University of Ulster since 2004. Previous to this, she
spent five years working as a Research Officer in Nutritional
Biochemistry in the same School
of Biomedical Science.
Educated in the University
of Ulster, She was awarded
a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Biomedical Sciences from the
University of Ulster
.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
