UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering

Interdisciplinary research and education centre drawing expertise across many disciplines together with clinicians and industry. Working in collaboration with clinicians at UCD’s teaching hospitals, the Centre's addresses real clinical needs, leading to the development of innovative applications and clinical use.

UCD Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research

Providing a dedicated research environment for over 400 research staff from across the University and its associated teaching hospitals. The Institute is driving translational research in chronic disease and, through partnership, advancing its application in the clinical and commercial setting to benefit patients.

Rehabilitation Engineering and Robotics Lab

Lab specialising in measuring and characterising perceptual and cognitive brain signals that relate to behaviour, using psychophysics, electrophysiology, functional imaging and computational modeling.

SCREEN4CARE

International Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project led by Pfizer, and 35 consortium partners from 14 European countries. The project offers an innovative research approach to accelerate rare disease diagnosis, which is based on two central pillars: genetic newborn screening and digital technologies. 

CERBERUS

Citizen science project addressing the growing control companies have over biometric data collected from wearable devices. By validating device accuracy, centralising research, and evaluating stakeholder perceptions, the project will create a public databank to unlock wearable devices' potential for disease-detection and health-monitoring.

UCD Institute for Discovery

Facilitating interdisciplinary connectivity in important areas of research, the Institute provides expertise and support for emerging and early stage interdisciplinary research, cultivating community through idea exchange, network building, the visiting fellowship programme and early career funding support.

Nanoscale Function Group

Multidisciplinary team based at UCD Conway Institute designing novel technologies for biomedical applications and developing understanding of the structure and function of molecular interactions on the nanometer scale.

All-Island Cancer Research Institute

All-island consortium focused on data-driven discovery science, fostering a vibrant new biotech cluster around precision cancer medicine with an interdisciplinary approach, co-led by Prof William Gallagher. 

Insight

One of the largest data analytics centres in Europe, supporting 450 researchers from UCD and several other host and partner institutions across areas such as the Fundamentals of Data Science, Sensing and Actuation, Scaling Algorithms, Model Building, Multi Modal Analysis, Data Engineering and Governance, Decision Making and Trustworthy AI.

NIBRT

World-class facility providing cutting edge training and research solutions to help the growth and development of the biopharma manufacturing industry. This innovative collaboration between Industry, Government and Academia, offers a training and research experience not previously possible anywhere in the world.

UCD Centre for Bioinformatics

Supporting researchers in the areas of bioinformatics, genomics and molecular evolution, focus on sequence alignment, short peptides, protein structure prediction, cancer and pathogens.

Medical Device Design Group

This group specialises in delivery devices, with a particular focus on platform technologies. They offer smart ways of delivering next-generation therapeutics through minimally invasive approaches such as novel implantable medical devices, including devices with embedded sensors and capacity for therapeutic delivery; and external assistive devices, including orthotics and mobility devices.

Clinical Bioinformatics Group

The Clinical Bioinformatics group at UCD focuses on basic computational research underlying peptide therapeutic development, and on clinically relevant genetic variation. Peptide development focuses on platelet, cancer, infection and food areas, while genetic studies include cardiovascular and autism genetics, with a particular focus on genetic combination effects.

UCD Neuromuscular Systems

Research group investigating the application of engineering principles, in particular mathematical modelling and signal processing, to understand how the nervous system controls muscle in healthy and diseased states. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to research to design therapies and technologies to improve impaired motor function.  

Atturos: UCD spin-out developed the first molecular diagnostic test for the diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis

Deep Brain Stimulation: Engineering a smarter treatment for Parkinson’s disease

Microfluidic Chips: Bringing medical devices to the market quicker

Prof Madeleine Lowery

PI of UCD Neuromuscular Systems Lab, specialising in bioelectromagnetics, myoelectric control of artificial limbs, electrical stimulation, deep brain stimulation and neural control of movement.

Prof Wenxin Wang

Full Professor of Skin Research and Wound Healing at UCD School of Medicine, SFI PI at the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology, specialising in biomaterials, stem cell and gene therapy for the treatments of skin wounds, cardiovascular and neural degenerative diseases. 

Dr Antoinette Perry

Co-director of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics laboratory at the UCD Conway Institute, research focus on translational cancer epigenomics, Co-founder of UCD spin-out EpiCapture.

Prof Michael Gilchrist

Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering, expert in head impact biomechanics and neurotrauma, forensic biomechanics and accident investigation, mechanical behaviour and fracture of biological tissue and design of personal protective equipment and safety helmets.

Prof Niamh Knowlan

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, expert in the role of mechanical forces in prenatal and postnatal development of the bones, joints and spine. UCD PI for Wellcome Leap’s In Utero programme, monitoring babies' health in the womb.

Dr Aisling Ní Annaidh

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design, PI of the UCD Tissue Biomechanics Group co-Lead on the MSCA Innovative Training Network, specialising in Tissue Biomechanics, Medical Device Design and Assistive Technologies.

Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill

Associate Professor at UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, specialises in 3D printing of medical devices, medical device innovation, design and commercialisation.

Prof Lorraine Brennan

Internationally recognised leader in metabolomics and precision nutrition, Director of UCD's Metoabolics Core Facility.

Prof Brian Caulfield

Director of the SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCD, specialises on the application of digital supports and data driven technologies for better understanding and enhancement of human behaviour and performance in health and sport.

Prof Breandán Kennedy

Prof Helen Roche

Fellow of UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research and UCD Institute of Food and Health, specialised in human nutrition and molecular medicine (nutrigenomics). 

Dr Stephen Redmond

Associate Professor at UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, co-founder of the tactile sensor company Contactile, specialises in the use of signal processing and pattern recognition techniques, and the use of deep neural networks for medical image segmentation.