Declan Byrnes

Background

About Declan Byrnes

I am a translational researcher for clinical therapies with 5 years of experience in microbiology, medical devices, immunology, and stem cell therapy targeting bacterial sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome. During this time I have been a green labs ambassador to reduce the labs carbon footprint, laboratory demonstrator for GMP grade manufacturing and aseptic culturing of stem cells, assessor of MSc presentations, supervisor of MSc research projects, processing samples for a national COVID-19 biobank during the pandemic, and a member of the college of medicine, nursing, and health sciences graduate research committee. Some of the projects I have worked on include: Small World Initiative (B.Sc)- Searching for novel antimicrobial compounds to combat antibiotic resistance Final year project (B.Sc)- Analysis of levels of HABP1 protein in alphavirus infected cells and potential direct interaction with the virus capsid protein’ Research Project (M.Sc)-'STARSTEM' Quality control analysis of gold NanoStars and their effect on mesenchymal stem cells PhD Project - Therapeutic potential of human mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of transitionary phase sepsis induced ARDS and their ability to restore immune homeostasis Supervisor of M.Sc Student Project - Investigating the potential for mesenchymal stem cells to attenuate viral infections of the lungs. Postdoctoral Researcher - Allergic responses and immune cell interactions/Haemophilia and immune cell interactions