Research Clusters

Cancer Research

The Discipline of Surgery at the Lambe Institute is home to a wide range of funded cancer research programmes involving academics, clinicians, full time researchers and graduate students.

Our breast cancer research laboratory and Cancer Biobank is primarily funded by the National Breast Cancer Research Institute.

Research Leads

• Dr. Laura Barkley
  
• Dr. Róisín Dwyer
  
• Prof. Michael Kerin
  
• Prof. Aoife Lowery
  
• Dr. Nicola Miller

Post-Doctoral Researcher

• Dr. Vinitha Richard, NBCRI
  
• Dr. Lilli Lin, Precision Oncology Ireland
  
• Dr. Elan McCarthy, AICRIstart 
  

Research Assistant

Ms. Hannah Ryman, Cancer Biobank

Graduate Students

• Luke McCarthy, NBCRI PhD Student
• Sha Li, Chinese Scholarship Council PhD student
• Abhishek Tomar, AICRIstart PhD student
• Yuyan Deng, Chinese Scholarship Council PhD student
• Rui Li, Chinese Scholarship Council PhD student
• Brandon Sugrue, Precision Oncology Ireland PhD student
• Gerard Feeney, MD student
• Domhnall O'Connor, PhD student
• Ronan Waldron, PhD student

Vascular Research

Research Leads

Prof. Stewart Walsh

Professor Walsh leads Leg Ulcer Centre Ireland. This centre specialises in managing patients with lower limb ulcers and is a collaboration between Saolta University Health Care Group, HSE Community Services and the University of Galway. 

Graduate Students

• Thomas Aherne
• Mohammed Alagha
• Nathalie Doolan
• Ramy El Kaedy
• Mohamed El Sharkawi
• Colum Keohane
• Fiona Nolan
• Megan Power Foley
• Mark Twyford