University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
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Trials
Phase 2, Status unknown, 91 people, Oct 2, 2023
Phase 2, Completed, 205 people, Feb 23, 2021
Phase 2, Status unknown, 142 people, Nov 30, 2020
Phase 4, Completed, 250 people, Oct 9, 2018
Phase 4, Completed, 31 people, Sep 24, 2018
Phase 4, Completed, 546 people, Sep 17, 2018
Phase 3, Status unknown, 60 people, Oct 18, 2016
Phase 3, Completed, 3,154 people, Sep 13, 2016
Phase 4, Terminated, 33 people, Jan 20, 2016
Phase 2, Completed, 118 people, Jan 27, 2015
Phase 4, Terminated, 53 people, Dec 22, 2014
Phase 2, Completed, 20 people, Nov 25, 2013
Collaborator, Phase 3, Completed, 20 people, May 6, 2013
Phase 1/2, Completed, 64 people, Nov 20, 2012
Collaborator, Phase 4, Completed, 56 people, Nov 21, 2008
Grants and prizes
ERC-STG, Biofabrication of gene activated grafts targeting synovial joint inflammation and meniscus repair, 101300008, €125k, 2027–2032, Oct 9, 2026
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN, Evolutionary Medical Genomics Doctoral Network, 101226544, €341.1k, 2026–2029, Jul 1, 2025
HORIZON-RIA, A bioprinting platform for the rapid, reliable, controlled and quantifiable patterning of cellular aggregates and microtissues into macroscale regenerative grafts with programmable architectures, 101191729, €503.3k, 2024–2028, Nov 29, 2024
HORIZON-ERC-SYG, Learning from Bats: New Strategies to Extend Healthspan and Improve Disease Resistance, 101118919, €3.7m, 2024–2030, Lead, Mar 25, 2024
HORIZON-JU-RIA, PREVENTING AND DELAYING THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIABETES IN AFRICA: A RANDOMISED PLACEBO -CONTROLLED DOUBLE-BLIND PHASE III TRIAL OF METFORMIN IN HIV-INFECTED PERSONS WITH PRE-DIABETES, 101145764, €103.5k, 2025–2026, Mar 5, 2024
ERC-STG, Immigrant-native health disparities in ageing societies: an intersectional approach, 101116721, €954.2k, 2024–2029, Lead, Dec 18, 2023
HORIZON-JU-RIA, INDIVIDUALISED CARE FROM EARLY RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE TO ESTABLISHED HEART FAILURE, 101112022, €326.7k, 2023–2028, Oct 20, 2023
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN, Advanced Customized Technologies for Intact Vision in Ageing, 101119695, €573k, 2023–2027, Jun 5, 2023
Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postdoctoral), Discovery and Development of Broad-Spectrum Drug Treatments For Inherited and Age-Related Blindness, IRC-2023-enterprise-partnership-scheme-postdoctoral-patrizia-colucci, 2023, Jan 1, 2023
PhD Training Fellowship for Clinicians, The impact of Empagliflozin on Left atrIal Volume and the feasibility of using Fitbit and mHealth to prescribe Exercise in non-diabetic stage B Heart Failure (ELIVE-HF), 225735/Z/22/Z, 2021–2025, Sep 30, 2022
HORIZON-CSA, A Coordination and Support Action to prepare UNCAN.eu platform, 101069496, €10k, 2022–2023, May 17, 2022
Frontiers for the Future - Awards, Cell Assembled Tissue Engineered Remedies for Enhanced Regeneration (CATERER), 19/FFP/6982(T), €1.2m, 2021–2025, Jul 1, 2021
Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate), Improving the early detection of ovarian cancer via noninvasive epigenetic biomarkers, IRC-2021-enterprise-partnership-scheme-postgraduate-asia-jordan, 2021, Jan 1, 2021
Frontiers for the Future - Awards, LongHealth: The Molecular Basis and Regulation of Longer Healthspan in Mammals, 19/FFP/6790, €1.3m, 2020–2025, Dec 1, 2020
PhD Training Fellowship for Clinicians, The Impact of Intensive Medical and Surgical Control of Diabetes on Experimental Rodent Diabetic Kidney Disease., 220577/Z/20/Z, 2019–2022, Sep 30, 2020
PhD Training Fellowship for Clinicians, Immunological pathways in Hidradenitis Suppurativa and potential therapeutic targets., 217652/Z/19/Z, 2019–2023, Mar 8, 2019
Employment-Based Programme, An investigation into the determinants of sarcopenia and muscle function, IRC-2019-employment-based-programme-jedd-pratt, 2019, Jan 1, 2019
Vacation Scholarships, The development of an induced pluripotent stem cell derived organoid platform to inform regenerative therapies for chronic kidney disease., 211851/Z/18/Z, 2018, May 31, 2018
Industry Fellowship Programme - Call A, Elucidating the genomic basis of exceptional ageing and immunity, 17/IFA/5303, €57.3k, 2018–2019, Apr 1, 2018
Employment-Based Programme, Novel nutritional strategies to preserve musculoskeletal health in aging via the “gut-muscle axis”, IRC-2018-employment-based-programme-elena-de-marco-castro, 2018, Jan 1, 2018
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Funded papers
Aug 14, 2026
May 25, 2026
Excess mortality in radiotherapy-treated pituitary adenoma patients: 50-year follow-up
May 14, 2026
Association between impaired lung function and glaucoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis
May 13, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
Mar 19, 2026
Jan 17, 2026
Jan 7, 2023
Sources: openalex.org, api.crossref.org
Papers
Association between impaired lung function and glaucoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis
HRB Open Res, Oct 16, 2026
Drug design, development and therapy, Oct 14, 2026
Personalized in situ bioprinting of skin: designing a blueprint for clinical translation
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Oct 14, 2026
Excess mortality in radiotherapy-treated pituitary adenoma patients: 50-year follow-up
Journal of the Endocrine Society, Oct 9, 2026
Journal of clinical lipidology, Oct 9, 2026
Design and baseline characteristics of the CagriSema cardiovascular outcomes trial (REDEFINE 3)
American heart journal, Oct 7, 2026
BMC public health, Oct 4, 2026
Survodutide reduces weight in adults with diabetes and obesity
The New England journal of medicine, Oct 2, 2026
Global heart failure cases reached 56 million in 2023
JAMA cardiology, Oct 1, 2026
Frontiers in public health, Sep 30, 2026
EClinicalMedicine, Sep 28, 2026
Nutrients, Sep 28, 2026
Eighty Years After Vague: Advances in Understanding Ectopic Fat and Metabolic Dysfunction
Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, Sep 23, 2026
Journal of the American Heart Association, Sep 18, 2026
Characterising mortality dynamics across countries and time using a multi-stage clustering approach
arXiv, Sep 15, 2026
Current developments in nutrition, Sep 14, 2026
HRB open research, Sep 13, 2026
Journal of general internal medicine, Sep 9, 2026
Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society, Sep 3, 2026
Annals of surgery, Sep 2, 2026