Governance

IACR Council 2019

55th Annual Conference, Europa Hotel Belfast

Executive Council

Prof. Amanda McCann

President

Dr. Antoinette Perry

Honorary Treasurer

Dr. Graham Pidgeon

Honorary Secretary

Senior Council Members

Dr. James Brown

Senior Council Member

Dr. Niamh Buckley

Senior Council Member

Dr. Paul Dowling

Senior Council Member

Dr. Alex Eustace

Senior Council Member

Dr. Fiona Furlong

Senior Council Member

Dr. Aileen Houston

Senior Council Member

Dr. Andrew Lindsay

Senior Council Member

Dr. Joanne Lysaght

Senior Council Member

Dr. Stephen Maher

Senior Council Member

Dr. Kyle Matchett

Senior Council Member

Dr. Margaret McGee

Senior Council Member

Dr. Marie McIlroy

Senior Council Member

Dr. Declan McKenna

Senior Council Member

Dr. Paul Murray

Senior Council Member

Dr. Triona Ni Chonghaile

Senior Council Member

Dr. Elizabeth Ryan

Senior Council Member

Dr. Aideen Ryan

Senior Council Member

Dr. Eva Szegezdi

Senior Council Member

Junior Council Members

Dr. Emma Allott

Junior Council Member

Dr. Denis Collins

Junior Council Member

Dr. Caroline Conway

Junior Council Member

Dr. Kellie Dean

Junior Council Member

Dr. Sean Kennedy

Junior Council Member

Dr. Niamh Lynam-Lennon

Junior Council Member

Dr. Claire Meaney

Junior Council Member

Dr. Oliver Treacy

Junior Council Member

Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Council Members

Isabella Bray

PPI Council Member

Kay Curtin

PPI Council Member

Margaret Grayson

PPI Council Member

Claire Kilty

PPI Council Member

Kay McKeon

PPI Council Member

Ms Eibhlin Mulroe

PPI Council Member

Improving Cancer Care and Outcomes

The 56th annual IACR conference in 2020 will host parallel sessions in Social, Nursing, and Allied Health Research

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3D mammosphere culture of breast epithelial cell line MCF10A.

Courtesy of Dr. Emer Bourke, NUI Galway

Phospho-Akt expression and localisation

Mediated by VEGF in A549 lung cancer cells. Visualised by high content image analysis.

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

Metaphase chromosome spread of Jurkat T-lymphoma cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

Apoptosis assessment of SKMES-1 lung cancer cells

Using a multiparameter apoptosis staining kit, showing cell nuclei (blue), actin (green) and mitochondrial activity (orange).

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

HeLa Cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

55th Annual Conference 2019

20 — 22 February 2019 at Europa Hotel, Belfast

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Mitotic Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia K562 Cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

Cell to Cell Tweeting

Via nanoparticles (red) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)

Courtesy of Sinéad Lindsay, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin (UCD) Ireland.

Confocal Microscopy Analysis

Of phospho-Akt expression in H460 lung cancer cells in response to hypoxia (0.5% O2).

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

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