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Sinead McGinley

Senior Research Programme Manager

Sinéad 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. Sinéad 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.

Sinéad has a Masters in Economic Science from UCD, and 25 years experience in research project management working in the academic, voluntary, private and public sectors. Sinéad has worked in UCD for nine years, most recently in UCD Research where she worked closely with Research Ireland Centres and Strategic Partnership Programmes, and provided support in developing and driving major strategic research initiatives to deliver cross-cutting opportunities for UCD's research community.

sinead.mcginley@ucd.ie
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Dr. Jessica Ralston

Chief Operations Officer (Currently on leave)

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.

jessica.ralston@ucd.ie
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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.

poiadmin@ucd.ie

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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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