Luke O’Neill#
| Membership Number: | 6553 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/people/laoneill/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1621-2302 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1988 - 1991 Medical Research Council Post-doctoral fellow, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- 1991 - 1999 Lecturer in Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
- 1996 Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
- 1999 Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
- Visiting Professor, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge MA
- 2004 Head of School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin
- 2007 Appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
- 2011 Founder Director, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
- 2016 Visiting Professor, GlaxoSmithKline Ltd
Fields of Scholarship
- Innate immunity
- Immunometabolism
- Signal transduction
- Inflammation
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 2009 Immunology ‘Guru’, National Institutes of Health, Royal Dublin Society / Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year Award
- 2010 McGill University Dan Perry Award Lecture, University of Oxford Jenner Institute Distinguished Lecturer
- Appointed Chair of the Programme Committee for Dublin European City of Science
- 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant awardee
- President, International Cytokine Society
- 2012 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Life Sciences
- 2014 European Federation of Immunology Societies Medal
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2018 Milstein Award, International Cytokine and Interferon Society
- Barcroft Medal for Medical Research, Queen’s University
- Listed in Clarivates top 1% of scientists in Immunology based on citations
- 2019 Landsteiner Award for biomedical sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- European Research Council Advanced Grant awardee
- 2022 Honorary Doctor of Science, Bath University
- Listed in Clarivates top 1% of scientists in Immunology based on citations
