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Prof Leonie Young
Leads the Endocrine Oncology Research Group at RCSI, with a focus on breast cancer metastasis to the brain.
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Fiona Bane
Oversees the daily running of the lab and builds the tissue microarrays behind the group’s biomarker work.
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Sinéad Cocchiglia
Develops ongoing and new projects in the Endocrine Oncology Group, and project-manages its biomedical research.
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Louise Watson
A third-generation scientist working on disease recurrence and breast cancer brain metastasis.
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Dr Aisling Hegarty
Member of Professor Leonie Young’s team since 2014, studying why some women may be at increased risk of breast cancer.
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Dr Mihaela Ola
Researches why some people develop breast cancer despite having no detectable BRCA gene mutation.
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Alessandra Allotta
Joined Professor Leonie Young’s group after award-winning Master’s research into treatment-resistant breast cancer.
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Jason McGrath
Postdoctoral cancer researcher studying why some breast cancers become more difficult to treat, especially in the brain.
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Adrian (Heng Yang) Lee
Postgraduate researcher investigating how breast cancer cells change and adapt when they spread to the brain.
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Colin O’Callaghan
Joined the Breast Cancer Research Group in 2024 as Head of Clinical Trials, bringing research into the clinical setting.
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Ron Tuyay
Ron Tuyay is a member of the clinical breast cancer research team, working on the long-term C-TRIAL 09/07 study.
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Noreen Murphy-Coakley
Noreen Murphy-Coakley is based at Cork University Hospital and plays an important role in delivering the PRISM clinical study.
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Pratiksha Shingate
Pratiksha Shingate is based at University Hospital Galway and is part of the team delivering the PRISM clinical study.
Prof Leonie Young
- Professor & Scientific Director
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- Professor & Scientific Director
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Sinéad Cocchiglia
- Senior Research Technician
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- Senior Research Technician
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Louise Watson
- PhD Researcher
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- PhD Researcher
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