PhD Researchers (current)
Meet our current PhD researchers and explore the projects they are working on, supported by academic supervisors across various disciplines.
PhD Researchers (past)
View previous PhD researchers by graduating class, along with their project titles.
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Class of 2025
Name Title Roanne Lecky The Diabetic Lung: Impact of Diabetes and Obesity on Lung Health (IDOL) -
Class of 2024
Name Title Sophie Coyle Targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome as a therapy for glaucoma Matthew Ennis Identifying multimorbidity patterns in type 2 diabetes and genes associated with comorbidity trajectories leading to chronic kidney disease Ruairidh Harrigan Developing novel synergistic drug combinations with venetoclax in acute myeloid leukaemia Rachel Hiemstra-Creighton Enjoyable group-based physical activity programmes for older adults Evangeline Johnston Identification of novel synergistic drug combinations with statins in paediatric AML -
Class of 2023
Name Title Ciara Devlin Off Target Benefits of GLP-1 Agonist Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Guangran Guo Multi-omic approach identifies GDF15 as cardiac cell senescence marker that also differentiates Permanent Atrial Fibrillation from Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Sean McCallion Biomarkers associated with AKI and CKD and their progression Gavin McCluskey Validation of Circulating Extracellular Vesicle Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker Candidates for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Bodhayan Prasad Development of machine learning based computational tools for stratified healthcare and personalised medicine Caoimhe Ward Investigating demographic, psychosocial and epigenetic risk factors for depression in young adults -
Class of 2022
Name Title Owen Connolly Skeletal muscle vesicles as a source of circulating biomarkers in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Vanessa Milla Identification of Biomarkers to Identify ALS subjects among patients affected by Motor Neuron Disorders Christina Vasilopoulou A software pipeline for the analysis of genomic data, and functional genomic approaches to explore the molecular mechanisms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Angelina Villikudathil Computational approaches in biomarker discovery for treatment response and comorbidity in type-2 diabetes