People

Walter Kolch

Director & Principal Investigator

Professor Walter Kolch is Director of Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) at University College Dublin (UCD). A leading international proponent of precision medicine, Kolch originally trained as a clinician, subsequently working in the pharmaceutical industry, research institutes, and academia. He is internationally recognised for his cutting-edge research using systems approaches to understand signalling networks, and is ranked 6th in the world in precision oncology, and 12th in systems medicine.

William Gallagher

Deputy Director & Principal Investigator

Professor William Gallagher BSc PhD CBiol MSB is a Professor of Cancer Biology in the UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science and Former Director of the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research (2016-2021). A major focus of Prof. Gallagher's research work is the identification and validation of candidate biomarkers of breast cancer and melanoma, with particular emphasis on translation of transcriptomic and proteomic datasets into clinically relevant assays. In addition, his team utilises lentiviral-based approaches to investigate the functional relevance of candidate tumour progression-associated genes at both in vitro and in vivo levels, as well as engages in preclinical evaluation of novel anti-cancer agents.

Jonathan Bond

Principal Investigator

Róisín Dwyer

Principal Investigator

Adrienne Gorman

Principal Investigator

Michael Kerin

Principal Investigator

Maeve Lowery

Principal Investigator

Darran O'Connor

Principal Investigator

Jacintha O'Sullivan

Principal Investigator

Tracy Robson

Principal Investigator

Helen Roche

Principal Investigator

Afshin Samali

Principal Investigator

Eva Szegezdi

Principal Investigator

Mark Tangney

Principal Investigator

Leonie Young

Principal Investigator

Donal Brennan

Official Collaborator

John Reynolds

Official Collaborator

Melinda Halasz

Associate POI Member

Cormac Owens

Official Collaborator

Aleksandar Krstic

SBI Investigator

Luis Iglesias Martinez

SBI Investigator

Vadim Zhernovkov

SBI Investigator

Jessica Ralston

Chief Operations Officer

Shane O'Grady

Research Administration & Communications Liaison

Anna Bogdanska

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chowdhury Arif Jahangir

PhD student

Lynda Corrigan

Medical Doctorate candidate

Ciarán Devoy

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tânia Dias

PhD Student

Donagh Egan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Soraya Epp

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chantal Halley

Research Engagement Manager

Aisling Hegarty

Biobank manager

Luke Jones

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zak Kinsella

Postdoctoral Researcher

Martina Kreileder

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lili Lin

Postdoctoral Researcher

Elan McCarthy

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rianna McElroy

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mahsa Mirzaei

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kathleen Mitchelson

Postdoctoral Researcher

Matthieu Moncan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Myriam Nabhan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vinitha Richard

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rashmi Sharma

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brandon Sugrue

PhD Student

Cian Gargan

Biobank manager

Nicole Wood

Research Assistant

Arman Rahman

Former Translational Research and Engagement Manager