2024
We ended an eventful year with great food and a draw-in-the-dark session. Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025!
December 2024
Another great fundraiser event to raise awareness for Cystic Fibrosis! Even Santa himself supported the Chrismas Day 4 CF.
December 2024
A conference only about Pulmonary Fibrosis? - We are in! We learned a lot at this year’s ICLAF in Athens and had a great time catching up with collaborators.
October 2024
What a great way to start the month by welcoming two new lab PhD students. Xi Jing Teoh and YinHeRichard Sun started their PhD projects with Dr. Irene Oglesby. Xi will do her PhD in “Interrogating the role of miRNA in predicting responses to novel modulator therapies in children with Cystic Fibrosis (IMPROVE-CF) and Richard will concentrate on “Exploring the role of miRNA in iPSC-derived airway basal cells from individuals with Cystic Fibrosis with variable treatment outcomes”.
October 2024
The European Research Night was a great opportunity to present some of our research to the general public. Thank you for everyone who came by!
September 2024
September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month! What better way to raise awareness than a Coffee Morning in aid of the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association (ILFA)?
September 2024
This year’s ERS brought us to the beautiful Vienna. Catching up on the latest research in the Lung field and meeting collaborators was rounded up by some thrills in the nearby adventure park.
September 2024
2023
September 2023
Another great ERS in Milan - filled with amazing science and interesting meetings!
August 2023
Big news for Dr. Mari Ozaki’s interesting project. Amy Duffy starts her PhD “Assessing the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell models”.
February 2023
Our team gets bigger again. Divya and Jason joined our lab for their 3-month project.
January 2023
A warm welcome to our newest Living Lung Lab Member. Xi Jing Teoh will join our team as a Research Assistant. Rebecca our RCSI student started her Student Selected Project.
2022
November 2022
Prof Killian Hurley was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to support his innovative research into treatments for pulmonary fibrosis.
October 2022
Dr. Mari Ozaki was awarded an IRC Starting Laureate. Mari will study the effects of ageing (short telomeres) & sex hormones in lung fibrosis using iPSCs.
October 2022
It’s time to say goodbye. Arlene Glasgow is moving to Oxford University to work with Prof. Deborah Gill on gene therapy for rare lung diseases.
September 2022
Experienced great science (and dancing) at the ERS conference in Barcelona - Jumping for fun!
July 2022
Dr. Irene Oglesby was awarded a HRB Emerging Investigator Award to study drug response of children with CF.
May 2022
As part of the COST Innovator Grant Training School we welcomed trainees to RCSI in Dublin to teach them in the skills required to generate a robust preclinical model of ILD using induced pluripotent stem cells.