Luke O’Neill - Curriculum Vitae#

Luke A.J. O’Neill PhD FRS
Title: Professor (Chair of Biochemistry)
Affiliations: School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 1985: Awarded B.A. (Mod.) in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Class: I
  
• 1988: Awarded PhD in Pharmacology, University of London
  

EMPLOYMENT

• 1988 - 1991 Medical Research Council Post-doctoral fellow, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
  
• 1991 - 1999 Lecturer in Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 1996 Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 1999 Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
  
• Visiting Professor, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge MA
  
• 2005 Head of School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 2007 Appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 2011 Founder Director, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
  
• 2016 Visiting Professor, GlaxoSmithKline Ltd

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• 2005 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organisation
  
• 2009 Immunology ‘Guru’, National Institutes of Health, Royal Dublin Society / Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence
  
• Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year Award
  
• 2010 McGill University Dan Perry Award Lecture
  
• University of Oxford Jenner Institute Distinguished Lecturer
  
• Appointed Chair of the Programme Committee for Dublin European City of Science
  
• 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant awardee
  
• President, International Cytokine Society
  
• 2012 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Life Sciences
  
• 2014 European Federation of Immunology Societies Medal
  
• 2016 Visiting Professor, GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK
  
• Visiting Fellow, Christ’s College Cambridge
  
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
  
• 2018 Milstein Award, International Cytokine and Interferon Society
  
• Barcroft Medal for Medical Research, Queen’s University
  
• Listed in Clarivates top 1% of scientists in Immunology based on citations
  
• 2019 Landsteiner Award for biomedical sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• 2022 Honarary Doctor of Science, Bath University

COMMERCIALISATION

Co-founder of 2 startup Biotechs: Inflazome Ltd (with Matt Cooper) –acquired by Roche Ltd., Sitryx Ltd (with Houman Ashrafian, Jeff Rathmell, Jonathan Powell and Mike Rosenberg), current finance: $40m, target: Immunometabolism.

OUTREACH

Weekly radio slot on Irish National Radio (Newstalk FM).

Published a best-selling popular science book in 2018: ‘Humanology: a scientist’s guide to our amazing existence’ (Gill Publishers). and ‘Never Mind the B*ll*cks, Here’s the Science (Gill Publishers, 2020), which won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year in Ireland in 2020.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Research Area: Molecular and Cellular basis to inflammation and innate immunity. Toll-like receptors. Pro-inflammatory cytokines. Signal transduction in the immune system. Molecular analysis of inflammatory and infectious diseases. Immunometabolism and Metabolic Reprogramming in Immunity

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed papers:

285 Reviews:
101 Book chapters:
5 h-Index:
145 Total citations: 85593