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Full NameProfessor Joseph Keane
Clinical Medicine
Trinity College Dublin
Webpage:medicine.tcd.ie
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- infectious disease and the immune system
- Medicine
- General Practice
- Occupational Medicine
- Public Health
- Dermatology
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious diseases
- Immunology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
IMMUNITY AND INFECTION: Tuberculosis (TB) is the biggest killer infection. We have no good TB vaccine, TB treatment takes too long, and multiple drug resistant TB is on the march. At St. James? Hospital, our research might lead to new vaccines and immuno-therapies for this global health emergency.
We team up with TCD immunologists to work with the hospital TB service, and the national reference laboratory. Together, we make research breakthroughs that are published in Cell, The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Immunity and the Journal of Immunology. We mentor physicians, from any speciality, to a PhD Doctorate. We study the host response to TB, so that we can invent new therapies; for example, we are developing inhaled micro-particles to re-programme human alveolar macrophages in diseased patients.