Padraic Fallon
Professor
Medicine
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Professor Padraic Fallon heads the Translational Immunology Group. Prof Fallon is the Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Professor in Translational Immunology in the School of Medicine, TCD. Previously, Fallon was a Wellcome Trust Fellow in the University of Cambridge, UK, investigating immune modulation by schistosomes. Since returning to Ireland in 2001, he has continued his research, elucidating underlying mechanisms of aberrant immune function and novel therapeutic strategies for inflammatory diseases. The main diseases addressed are allergic lung inflammation (asthma), skin inflammation (eczema) and inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). Fallon is the Director of the Paediatric Research in Translational Immunology (PRiTI) Programme, a strategic partnership between Trinity College Dublin and the National Children's Research Centre http://www.nationalchildrensresearchcentre.ie/ The PRiTI programme bridges basic and clinician scientists and focuses on the underlying inflammatory processes associated with a number of childhood diseases. Prof Fallon is also the current Director of Research for the School of Medicine.
Research Interest
Allergies; ALLERGY; Animal Models; ANIMAL-MODELS; Asthma; CYTOKINE RESPONSES; DISEASE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS; Helminths; Immunotherapies; INFECTION; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE; Parasites; Transgenic Mice
Publications
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MacLeod AK, Fallon PG, Sharp S, Henderson CJ, Wolf CR, Huang JT., An enhanced in vivo stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) model for quantification of drug metabolism enzymes., Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2015
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Khan AR, Hams E, Floudas A, Sparwasser T, Weaver CT, Fallon PG, PD-L1(hi) B cells are critical regulators of humoral immunity., Nature communications, 6, 2015, p5997
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Saunders SP, Moran T, Floudas A, Wurlod F, Kaszlikowska A, Salimi M, Quinn EM, Oliphant CJ, Núñez G, McManus R, Hams E, Irvine AD, McKenzie AN, Ogg GS, Fallon PG, Spontaneous atopic dermatitis is mediated by innate immunity, with the secondary lung inflammation of the atopic march requiring adaptive immunity., The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2015
