Professor David Brayden Elected to the Royal Irish Academy
Congratulations to Professor David Brayden, Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, on his recent election to the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Brayden is one of 28 newly elected members who were officially admitted to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) on 21 May. Membership of the RIA recognises exceptional contributions to the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as to public service.
Professor Pat Guiry, President of the Royal Irish Academy, said: 'Ireland should be immensely proud of these 28 women and men who have been elected by their peers and have brought international acclaim to our country through their distinct areas of research. As Members of the Royal Irish Academy they will support and strengthen our capacity to achieve our strategic goals and objectives as we look to the launch of our Strategic Plan 2024-2028 in the coming weeks.'
Pictured below: 27 of the newly elected Members with Professor Pat Guiry, President of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor David Brayden is seated in the front row, second from the left.
About Professor David Brayden
David Brayden is Full Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the School of Veterinary Medicine and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute. Following a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge, UK (1989), and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University, CA (1991), he set up Elan Corporation's pharmacology laboratory in Dublin (1991). At Elan, he became a senior scientist and project manager of several of Elan's Joint-Venture drug delivery research collaborations with US biotech companies.
In 2001, he joined UCD as a college lecturer in veterinary pharmacology and was appointed Full Professor in 2014. He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe consortium grant, BUCCAL-PEP, which was awarded 4m EUR and runs from 2022-2026. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 research publications and patents. Professor Brayden serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Drug Discovery Today, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews and the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. In 2021 he was appointed Chief Editor of 'Frontiers in Drug Delivery.'
Professor Brayden coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Biological Fluids and Drug Discovery and Development and contributes to a module on Cell Communication. In 2015, he was made an Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway to support his Co-PI role in the SFI CURAM Centre. He was elected as a Fellow of both the Controlled Release Society (2012) and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (2017). In 2021, he was appointed by the Minister of Health to the National Research Ethics Committee (Clinical Trials A).
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