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Full NameProfessor Timothy O'Brien
- cell and developmental biology/regenerative medicine
- physiology and non-communicable disease
- clinical trials
- Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- General Practice
- Public Health
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Immunology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Vascular Medicine
My research interests include the translation of basic research findings in stem cell biology to regenerative approaches to peripheral vascular disease and diabetic complications in partnership with industry and the health service. I have an active research group at REMEDI NUI Galway investigating the use of mesenchymal stromal cells and endothelial progenitor cells in vascular complications of diabetes mellitus.
I am Director of the GMP cell manufacturing facility at NUI Galway and have been a PI on gene therapy and cell therapy clinical trials in Galway. In addition to a laboratory-based programme, my research brings together the Galway HRB Clinical Research Facility, the Galway Blood and Tissue Establishment and the Centre for Cell Manufacturing Ireland for translational research in stem cells and gene therapy.
I am coordinator of 2 current EU funded projects; EU FP7 REDDSTAR which is developing and testing a novel stromal cell therapy to treat complications of diabetes mellitus (www.reddstar.eu) and the EU H2020 NEPHSTROM (www.nephstrom.eu), which will clinically validate a novel stromal cell therapy for the stabilization of progressive diabetic kidney disease.