Professor Robert D. O'Neill
Biosensors and Electrochemistry Laboratory
UCD School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Science Centre (South)
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland.
Fax: +353-1-7162127
Tel: +353-1-7162314
E-mail: Robert.ONeill@UCD.ie
Web: Biosensors and Electrochemistry Laboratory
Outline CV: BSc (Chemistry, University College Dublin, 1976); Ryan Gold Medal (Chemistry, 1976); PhD (Electrochemistry, supervised by Prof. David Feakins, UCD, 1980). Postdoctoral research (1980 – 83) with John Albery, FRS (Chemistry, Imperial College London) and Marianne Fillenz, MD, PhD (Physiology, Oxford University). Research Fellowships (1983 – 85) in Physiology (Worcester College, Oxford) and Neurochemistry (Beit Memorial Fellowship in Medical Research) at Oxford University. Appointed to UCD in 1985 and is now Professor of Electrochemistry. Recently, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator under the Investigator Programme, Basic Research, and Research Frontiers schemes.
Core Research Interests: Design and characterisation of amperometric sensors and biosensors; electrosynthesis of non-conducting polymer layers; kinetics of surface-bound enzymes; neurotransmitter glutamate and dopamine monitoring; brain vitamin-C/glutamate interactions.
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Professor John P. Lowry
Bioelectroanalysis Laboratory
Chemistry Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Ireland.
Fax: +353-1-7083815
Tel: +353-1-7083770
E-mail: John.Lowry@NUIM.ie
Outline CV: BSc (Chemistry, University College Dublin, 1988); PhD (Bioelectrochemistry, supervised by Prof. Robert D. O’Neill, UCD, 1992). Postdoctoral research (1992 – 94; 1997 – 98) with Prof. O’Neill, UCD. Marie Curie Fellow (1994 – 97) with Dr. Marianne Fillenz, MD, PhD (University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford). Appointed as lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) in 1998. Appointed as lecturer in Pharmacology, Pharmacology Department, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, UCD in 2004. Appointed to the Chair of Chemistry and Head of Department, NUIM in 2006.
Recently Principal and Co-Investigator on grants awarded by: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI); the Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland; Enterprise Ireland; the Welcome Trust, UK; the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK; Eli Lilly and Company, Ltd., UK; and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, The Netherlands.
Core Research Interests: Application of brain microdialysis, and amperometric sensors and biosensors (e.g. glucose, lactate, tissue oxygen, blood-flow, glutamate, hydrogen peroxide, ascorbic acid and NO), in real-time studies of the interaction of various neurochemicals in the living brain. This work is targeted at understanding their role in diverse neurochemical processes (e.g. brain energy metabolism), and also in psychiatric (e.g. schizophrenia) and neurological (e.g. Parkinson’s disease) dysfunctions in order to develop treatments based on new drug discovery.
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