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Following a B.Sc. in Biochemistry at University College Cork (UCC), I moved to the University of Ulster at Coleraine where I worked on developing DNA probes for the identification of pathogenic bacteria. I stayed on at the School of Biomedical Sciences in UUC to do a Ph.D. studying the role of proteases and their natural inhibitors in invasion and metastasis of renal cancer. When I finished my Ph.D. in 1999, I took up a postdoctoral position in the Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin, working on the expression and function of an inner mitochondrial membrane protein believed to be involved in energy metabolism. Since April 2001, I have been in my present position investigating anti-cancer properties of novel compounds. |
