Professor Paul Moynagh

Professor Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy and Professor Paul Moynagh, Department of Biology and Kathleen Lonsdale Research Institute for Human Health

Professor Moynagh, who is Head of the Department of Biology and Director of the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research, became one of 27 new members of the RIA, and one of 10 new members admitted from the Sciences in 2019.

Professor Moynagh has published extensively in the area of immunology-related research. In 2009 he was awarded the NUI Centennial Prize for Academic Publishing in Medical and Health Sciences and he is the recipient of the 2014 Irish Area Section Biochemical Society (IASBS) Medal. He is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator. His research focuses on delineating the roles of Pellino proteins in immunity.

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