Operations Team

Dr. Jessica Ralston

Chief Operations Officer

Jessica manages the POI programme. She is responsible for day-to-day oversight of all POI consortium initiatives and has line management responsibility of the POI operations team. Jessica facilitates strategy execution to ensure the programme’s goals, objectives and KPIs are successfully achieved. She also facilitates commercialisation and the establishment and management of relationships with industry and charity counterparts, as well as state agencies concerned with commercial ventures.

Jessica has a PhD in Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and has completed Postdoctoral training in Nutrigenomics, and Food for Health. She moved to Ireland from Canada in 2015 and has held management positions in research centres funded by both Enterprise Ireland and Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland.

Dr. Shane O'Grady

Research Administration & Communications Liaison

Shane is responsible for providing day-to-day administrative & communications support across POI and ensures the smooth running of activities including seminars, public engagement events, and programme administration. He also monitors programme progress, capturing metrics and developing POI reports.

Shane completed his PhD in Cancer Biology at RCSI in 2018 and subsequently worked as a research administrator, assistant lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher in the UCD School of Medicine prior to joining POI.

Precision Oncology Ireland

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

T: (+353) 01-7166301 | E: poiadmin@ucd.ie

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