UCD Festival of Research and Innovation: Health and Healthcare Delivery
UCD Conway Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 20th April 2011
Provisional Programme:
11.00am
Registration [Conway Foyer]
11.30am
Introductory Comments
Prof. Desmond Fitzgerald
11.35am
Design for Healthcare
Chair: Prof. Michael Gilchrist
12.05 – 1.20pm
Session 1 [Lifespan: Food, Ageing and Independent Living]
Chairs: Prof. Giuseppe De Vito, Prof. Mike Gibney
12.10 – 12.25pm
Dr. Breige McNulty:
‘Obesity in Ireland’
12.25 – 12.40pm
Dr. Brendan Egan:
‘Molecular biology of exercise in the prevention and treatment of
metabolic disease’
12.40 – 12.55pm
Prof. Helen Roche:
‘Obesity, diabetes and inflammation’
12.55 – 1.10pm
Prof. Colin Boreham:
‘Exercise in the life span’
1.10 – 1.15pm
Ms. Jacqui Maier:
‘The stepping Stone study’
1.15 – 120pm
Ms. Ciara Morris:
‘The relationship between fitness levels and metabolomic profiles in
healthy adults: The Meche study’
1.20pm
UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
Dr. Catherine Cox (UCD School of History and Archives, CACS)
1.30pm
Light lunch
2.00 – 3.20pm
Session 2 [New Insights into Disease Mechanisms]
Chairs: Prof. Catherine Godson, Prof. Therese Kinsella
2.05 – 2.20pm
Prof. Johan Ericsson
‘Novel mechanisms to regulate lipid metabolism – implications for
diabetes and metabolic disease’
2.20 – 2.35pm
Dr. Ursula Fearon
2.35 – 2.50pm
Dr. Paddy Mallon
2.50 – 2.55pm
Dr. Frances Hayes:
‘Sex hormones and insulin resistance’
2.55 – 3.00pm
Dr. Mark Pickering:
‘Exploring repair as a therapeutic strategy for demyelinating diseases’
3.00 – 3.05pm
Dr. Darran O’Connor
‘Antibody-based proteomics: Fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in
oncology’
3.05 – 3.20pm
Dr. Alex Von Kriegsheim
3.20 – 4.40pm
Session 3 [E-Health and Personalised Medicine]
Chairs: Dr. Brian Caulfield, Prof. Doug Veale
3.25 – 3.35pm
Prof. Ken McDonald:
‘Telemonitoring in Heart Failure; Who, When and How ?’
3.35 – 3.45pm
Prof. Patrick Murray:
‘Personalised Medicine & Drug Nephrotoxicity’
3.45 – 3.55pm
Prof. Gregory O’Hare:
‘Smart monitoring of dementia sufferers’ mobility in the community’
3.55 – 4.05pm
Dr. Chiara Garattini & Flip van den Berg:
‘Older adults, new thinking: ethnographic research and design
innovation at the TRIL Centre’
4.05 – 4.15pm
Dr. Seamas Donnelly:
‘An evaluation of home based monitoring for COPD management’
4.15 – 4.25pm
Prof. Stephen Pennington:
‘UCD Conway Institute Quantitative Proteomics Platform and its
application to personalised medicine’
4.25 – 4.35pm
Dr. Maria Souden:
‘Narrowing the Gap: Chronic Illness Information as Experienced in
Everyday Life and Healthcare Contexts’
4.40pm
Coffee break
5.10 – 6.30pm
Session 4 [Drug Development in the Academic Arena]
Chairs: Prof. Pat Guiry, Prof. David Brayden
5.15 – 5.30pm
Prof. Pat Guiry:
‘Lipoxins – Recent chemistry and biology’
5.30 – 5.45pm
Prof. Cormac Taylor:
‘Into thin air: manipulating the hypoxic response for therapeutic benefit’
5.45 – 6.00pm
Dr. Matthias Tacke:
‘Novel bio-organometallic antibiotics and anticancer drugs’
6.00 – 6.15pm
Dr. Joseph Cassidy:
‘Development of a multistage tuberculosis vaccine: a tale of mice,
men….and women’
6.15 – 6.30pm
Prof. David Brayden:
‘A nanomedicine peptide delivery system for inflammatory arthritis’
6.30 – 7.45pm
Session 5 [Next Generation Medical Devices]
Chairs: Prof. David Fitzpatrick, Prof. Gareth Redmond
6.35 – 6.50pm
Prof. David Fitzpatrick:
‘Perspective on Selected Biomedical Devices’
6.50 – 7.05pm
Prof. Declan Sugrue
‘Implantable cardiac devices’
7.05 – 7.25pm
Dr. Brian Vohnsen:
‘Present and future of ophthalmic instrumentation for the human eye’
7.25 – 7.40pm
Dr. Peadar Grant:
‘Smarter brain stimulators through research’
7.45pm
Concluding Remarks – Followed by Reception
Prof. William Gallagher