RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT

Professor Colum Dunne (BSc, PhD, MBA) was educated at University College Cork (UCC). Colum has held senior research roles at Ireland's National Food Biotechnology Centre, and UCC's BioMerit Research Centre & Departments of Microbiology and Medicine. Following a period as General Manager of a cancer research centre focused on development of gene-/chemotherapies and innovative medical devices, Colum joined Glanbia plc as Director of Research and served as a member of the Boards of the Glanbia Nutritionals group of companies. Colum was also Director of Westgate Biologicals Ltd, a start-up antimicrobial business. Colum has published extensively and is an inventor on a number of commercialised patents. He is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and the Royal Society of Medicine (London). He is currently Director of Research at the Graduate Entry Medical School, and Founding Director of the Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity (4i) at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Colum is also a member of the University’s Governing Authority.

Posts/Positions:
Chair & Director of Research, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick (Oct 2009- )
 
Director, Research & Development, Glanbia Nutritionals (Sept 2004 - Sept 2009)
 
Director, Westgate Biological Ltd.  (Feb 2008 - Sept 2009)
 
General Manage, Cancer Reseach Centre, Mercy University Hospital & BioSciences Institute, Cork, Ireland (Nov 2001 - Aug 2004)
 
Programme Manager, Department of Medicine and National Food Biotechnology Centre, Cork, Ireland (July 1998 - Oct 2001)
 
Senior Scientist, BIOMERIT Laboratory, Dept. of Microbiology, University College, Cork, Ireland. (July 1997 - June 1998)
 
Education and Training:

MBA: Strategy, Finance, Innovation, Change Management & Culture
 
PhD: Microbiology/ Molecular Biology
 
BSc (Hons): Microbiology with Biochemistry