Patrick Walsh

Dr Patrick Walsh is an Associate Professor in Paediatric Immunology in the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. He earned a PhD in biochemistry at UCC in 2001, and conducted postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania where he was an American Society for Transplantation fellowship awardee. After a period in pharmaceutical drug development at GlaxoSmithKline, he joined the School of Medicine as a lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Principal Investigator at the National Children’s Research Centre (NCRC), CHI-Crumlin. He has been awarded the Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher award. The research conducted by Professor Walsh’s group investigates the mechanisms which control inflammation and immune tolerance, particularly in the context of autoimmune and inflammatory disease conditions.