Fellowship Call for 2019
October 12, 2018ICAT One Health Study Day Registration
February 29, 2024Full NameDr Lorcan McGarvey
Centre for Experimental Medicine
Queen's University Belfast
Webpage:qub.ac.uk
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Airway neurobiology
- Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
My research comprises a comprehensive translational and experimental medicine-based programme developed to investigate the mechanistic principles of acute and chronic cough and to evaluate novel therapies. A prominent theme has been the investigation of novel neuro-inflammatory mechanisms with a specific focus on the expression and functional characteristics of ion channels in human airways.
The study of human airway nerves is hampered by difficulty accessing human tissue and in collaboration with colleagues at QUB (Dr Fionnuala Lundy, Dr Tim Curtis) and using innovative techniques we have overcome this limitation by differentiating adult human dental pulp stems cells and so establishing a novel human ex vivo neuronal model for mechanistic studies on airway neural responses.