Lorraine O'Driscoll
@lodrisc1
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Professor, pharmacologist, biotechnologist, educator; MRIA; love research, people, animals, and running. G’wan Monaghan!
Trinity College Dublin
Joined April 2013
Delighted our cancer research features in the excellent “Cancer Revolution” exhibition, St Stephen’s Green shopping centre. Sneak view towards end of the video. Kudos & thank to @BreakthroCancer for such a great free exhibition 👏 @TCDPharmacy @tcdTBSI @CancerInstIRE @tcddublin
✨ Cancer Revolution: Science, Innovation and Hope is coming to Ireland for the first time 🧬 Explore Irish cancer research, real stories & groundbreaking science. 📅 15 Aug – 31 Oct 2025 📍 Stephen’s Green SC, Dublin 🎟 Free – booking essential 👉 https://t.co/IhByH80J0O
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👇If you’re working on *extracellular vesicles (EVs)* -not electric vehicles/EVs- you’re welcome to join us on 8th December at Trinity College Dublin @TCDPharmacy @tcdTBSI @CancerInstIRE
An EV seminar day will take place on Monday 8 December at the Knowledge Exchange in Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Pearse Street. Link to register is here: https://t.co/GByyuJeTaV Registration closes on 28 November
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Good news 💙 Due to incredible demand and immense generosity of the Tom Cunningham Trust, @TheIrelandFunds and @Citi Ireland, our Cancer Revolution exhibition has been extended! Visitors say it's ‘hopeful’, ‘eye-opening’, and ‘beautifully human’. 🔗 https://t.co/IhByH80J0O
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Superb, powerful interview with Irish former 400m athlete David Gilick by @MickFoley76
https://t.co/COpWCYWXEJ
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Research Alert 📢 National Evaluation of Nutrition & Dietetic Services for People Post-Cancer Treatment If 18+, living in 🇮🇪 & had/have cancer, pls consider taking this 15min survey Your voice matters & will help to inform services 🙏 #CancerResearch
https://t.co/zqslO599g9
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Today, the @CancerInstIRE hosted its annual #TSJCI #ResearchDay A showcase of some of the novel, innovative research, #survivorship & patient-centred #care Delighted to present our research on #FGFR2 in #lungcancer on behalf of Conor Murtagh @stjamesdublin @TrinityMed1 @TCDTMI
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Well done @VolgaMSaini 👏 An incredible @CluB_Cancer1 researcher carrying out work on CTC #LiquidBiopsy for #LungCancer. As a Club #PPI partner, her work brings me so much hope for improving outcomes. Keep going Volga! 💪👏
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It really was an excellent, stimulating day! Thanks @PatriciaMcGowan & also everyone who showcased the fantastic wealth of cancer research we have on-going @CancerInstIRE #OECI Comprehensive Cancer Centre @tcddublin @stjamesdublin - all for better outcomes for out patients 🙏
TSJCI Research Director Prof Lorraine O'Driscoll opening the 3rd annual TSJCI Research Day. Excellent day of presentations ahead.
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Congratulations to CLuB’s funded Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr Brian Henderson, for being of the four recipients of the @tcddublin 2025-26 Research Initiatives Fund which is aimed at supporting early career researchers from Health Sciences #STEM #healthsciences 👏
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More congratulations👏 This time to Dr Mark Ward and fellow CLuB members for publication of a paper in the British Journal of Cancer
clubcancer.ie
We’re delighted to announce a new publication in the British Journal of Cancer first authored by Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr Mark Ward, along with CLuB members Ms. Faye Lewis, Dr Brian Henderson, Ms....
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A heartfelt thank you to Kevin Kennedy for courageously sharing his story in the @Independent_ie helping to raise vital awareness of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer. Grateful also to Ms Claire Donohue, Upper GI Surgeon @stjamesdublin @CancerInstIRE, for her expert insights
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Great to see @CancerInstIRE Academic Director Prof Maeve Lowery expertly chairing & sharing sharp insights as invited discussant in the GI Proffered Papers session at #ESMO25. The spotlight on KRAS G12D targeted therapies in pancreatic cancer marks real progress @MaeveLowery
🇮🇪 At #ESMO25 today, Prof Maeve Lowery @CancerInstIRE @TrinityMed1 chaired and was invited discussant in the GI Proffered Papers session, spotlighting new KRAS G12D-targeted therapies in pancreatic cancer. These studies signal real progress in one of the toughest-to-treat
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Super excited to be joining PPI in the Park!! 😃 Public & patient involvement in research is extremely important, it helps shape research that is meaningful to patients. It's also exciting and fun! Don't miss out, register today! #PPI #GetInvolved #ResearchIreland
🌳Join us for PPI in the Park! ☕ @PPI_Ignite_TCD & @RCSI_PPI_Ignite are hosting a meet-and-greet to discuss public and patient involvement (PPI) in research. We'll bring conversation starters & refreshments, if you bring your curiosity! https://t.co/sCVcxq6nhe
#PPIFestival2025
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First episode of my new Pod “Second Opinions, with John Crown” up today!! My first guest-Dr Dennis Slamon talks about his life and work. #ASCO #AACR #ESMO #ISMO
https://t.co/QDM5eJc8S7
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I’m really looking forward to the @LungCommunity LC Patients Symposium promises to be a 🔝event, top speakers providing useful practical information and of course time to meet others who have been impacted by the disease. Do you know someone who would benefit from attending???
SAVE THE DATE! The ILCC will be holding an in-person Patient & Caregiver event this Lung Cancer Awareness Month. It will be on Saturday the 22nd November from 11-4pm in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise. Keep an eye out for further details!
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@stjamesdublin @CancerInstIRE is proud to announce Prof Michael E. Kelly as our new Professor of Surgery, a major step forward for cancer care. At TSJCI, Ireland’s only OECI-accredited Comprehensive Cancer Centre, he’ll lead strategic initiatives in surgical oncology #Leadership
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Great interview on @NewstalkFM with Prof John Kennedy @CancerInstIRE on @AntonSavageShow. He shared progress in cancer survival but challenges remain due to the increasing population & complexity of treatment. Advocating for increased diagnostic capacity https://t.co/swLFI46FQA
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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I presented my work on circulating tumour cells in high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas at the AACR Special Conference in Ovarian Cancer Research last week in Denver, CO. Many thanks to @AACR for the opportunity and @hea_irl for funding this research. https://t.co/od7aanc3fW
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40-50% of pts in Ireland have access to EMA-approved drugs meaning the incentive for pharma to apply for reimbursement in a slower public system is ⬇️ For Ireland to have a two-tier system for cancer treatment in 2025 is unacceptable | Irish Independent
independent.ie
Ireland has one of the lowest rates of availability for newly licensed cancer medicines among western European countries. The finding of an analysis by the...
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Thanks to everyone who joined us in conversation and activities on #lungcancer & #braintumour research and #PPI at the @CancerInstIRE stall @tcddublin #EuropeanResearchersNight @GrainneSmi63903 KateConnor @DrMelissaConroy KateHourigan @lodrisc1 @gerryhanna @TCDTMI @TrinityMed1
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