Lead Principal Investigator
| Professor Breda Smyth Director of Public Health Medicine, HSE West; Personal Professor of Public Health Medicine, NUI Galway. smythb@nuigalway.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
Co-Principal Investigators
| Professor Charles Spillane, Director of Ryan Institute, Head of Genetics & Biotechnology Lab, National University of Ireland, Galway charles.spillane@nuigalway.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
| Professor Kingston Mills Director of Trinity Biomedical Science Institute; Professor of Experimental Immunology, School of Biochemistry & Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Professor Orla Sheils Dean – Faculty of Health Sciences; Professor of Molecular Diagnostics, Trinity College Dublin. osheils@tcd.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
| Professor Mary Horgan President of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases at Cork University Hospital, Professor and Director of Graduate Entry Medicine Programme, University College Cork m.horgan@ucc.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
| Dr John Mac Sharry Deputy Director of GEM programme, School of Medicine; Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology, School of Microbiology, University College Cork j.macsharry@ucc.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
| Professor Patrick Mallon Director of the UCD Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, UCD Professor of Microbial Diseases and Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin unicov@ucd.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
| Professor Grace Mulcahy Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, University College Dublin unicov@ucd.ie | ![]() | ![]() |
Collaborators
| Prof. Cathal Walsh University of Limerick | ![]() |
| Prof. Wim Meijer University College Dublin | ![]() |
| Associate Prof. John O’ Sullivan University College Dublin | ![]() |
| Prof. Paul Cotter Teagasc | ![]() |
| Prof. Mani Ramaswami Trinity College Dublin | ![]() |
| Associate Prof. Andrew Harkin Trinity College Dublin | ![]() |
| Prof. Andrew Harkin Trinity College Dublin | ![]() |
| Prof. Aideen Long Trinity College Dublin | ![]() |
| Prof. Laurence Gill Trinity College Dublin | ![]() |
| Prof. Liam Fanning University College Cork | ![]() |
| Dr Niall O’Leary University College Cork | ![]() |
| Dr Michael Byrne University College Cork m.byrne@ucc.ie | ![]() |
| Prof. Peter Doran University College Dublin | ![]() |
| Dr Virginie Gautier University College Dublin | ![]() |
| Dr Aonghus Lawlor University College Dublin | ![]() |
| Dr Catherine Fleming NUI Galway | ![]() |
| Prof. John Newell NUI Galway | ![]() |













