Dearbhaile Dooley

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine @UCDdublin | Immunomodulation & drug delivery systems for Spinal Cord Injury | Mayo native, outdoor lover 🐎 🐠⛰

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

Really grateful to have been awarded one of these awards from @Researchirel to continue our work on #glial cells and #neuroinflammation after #spinalcordinjury
Watch this space for exciting new positions in my lab in 2025! 🧠 🔬 @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research

[Research Ireland @Researchirel]

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science @DeptofFHed, @podonovan, has today announced funding of €26 million for 40 research projects under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme. Read here: https://t.co/5pC348rHFN

[University College Dublin @ucddublin]

👩‍🎓✨ Many congratulations to Assistant Professor Dearbhaile Dooley (@DooleyLab), who has been awarded Neuroscience Ireland's 2025 Early-Career Investigator Award in recognition of her pioneering work on neuroimmune responses in spinal cord injury

This prestigious honour from Neuroscience Ireland recognises exceptional early-career researchers whose work is making a real difference. Dr Dooley’s research has established innovative preclinical models for spinal cord injury and developed novel tools for tracking microglial activity.

In 2017, she joined the UCD School of Medicine as a faculty member and secured a permanent academic position in 2019. She currently holds the title of Senior Conway Fellow at the UCD Conway Institute.

Alongside her research leadership, she is a passionate educator, teaching across multiple programmes at UCD, and a committed advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion in academia.

Congratulations, Dearbhaile, on this well-deserved recognition.

[Neuroscience Ireland @NeuroscienceIRL]

👏🏆 Dr. Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab (@ucddublin) is the 2025 winner of the NSI Early Career Investigator Award — recognising her pioneering work on neuroimmune responses in spinal cord injury (SCI).
Award: https://t.co/Qk49Kodgtb
Profile: https://t.co/cGFpNXV5UC

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

📢 As part of a @Researchirel FFP, I'm recruiting a #postdoctoral researcher to come join the Dooley Lab at @ucddublin & investigate #glial responses in the context of #spinalcordinjury and #inflammation
✍️ Apply online before April 29th: https://t.co/8ntYnT6dNY (ref no. 018498)

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

So proud of @CiaraWalsh_1 who successfully became Dr. Walsh this week! 🥳🥂 The future is bright! 🤩

@UCD_Conway @UCDMedicine @ucddublin @UCD_CHAS @UCD_Research

[Ciara Walsh @CiaraWalsh_1]

Beyond thrilled to pass my viva on Monday 🥳
Huge thanks to my excellent panel @PhillipsLab, Stephen Lalor and @MarieSestier, to the best supervisor @DooleyLab, and to everyone who helped to get me here 🍾✨ This doctor’s heart is feeling very full ❤️

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@clairechatssci @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Thanks Claire! 😊

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

Really grateful to have been awarded one of these awards from @Researchirel to continue our work on #glial cells and #neuroinflammation after #spinalcordinjury
Watch this space for exciting new positions in my lab in 2025! 🧠 🔬 @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research

[Research Ireland @Researchirel]

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science @DeptofFHed, @podonovan, has today announced funding of €26 million for 40 research projects under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme. Read here: https://t.co/5pC348rHFN

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@JacekWychowani1 @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Thanks Jacek! 😊

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@KasiaWhysall @Galway_Reg_Med @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research @SiobhanMcMaho13 Thanks Kasia! And congrats to you too on your recent funding! 🥳

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@JudithEvers2 Ah thanks Judith! 😊

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@MargueriteClyne @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Thank you Marguerite! 😊

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@Galway_Reg_Med @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Thank you! And heartiest congrats to you Linda & @SiobhanMcMaho13 too!! Super news! 🥳

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@TheAherneLab @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Thanks Carol! 😊

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@matthewVXwhelan @Researchirel @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @ucddublin @UCD_Research Cheers Matt!

[UCD Medicine @UCDMedicine]

👏Congratulations to Dr Dearbhaile Dooley, UCD School of Medicine and Conway Fellow for her project Targeting Inflammatory Signaling between Microglia and Astroglia in spinal cord injury which has received over €777,500 in funding. Read more👉https://t.co/AzonbFLAbz

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@mario_manresa @UCDMedicine Thanks Mario!

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

11 UCD research projects have been funded under the @Researchirel Frontiers for the Future Programme!💫

Minister Patrick O’Donovan TD today announced funding of €26M for a total of 40 projects, supporting high-risk, high-reward research endeavours.

📸L-R: Fionnuala O’Leary @CHFIreland, Dr Ruth Freeman @Researchirel and Minister Patrick O'Donovan TD with Dr Fiona Freeman @UCD_Mech_Eng whose research has received funding under the programme.

➡️https://t.co/slhRlZt29v

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@KasiaWhysall @leorquinlan @RedoxAGing Congrats Kasia!

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@UCDBiomedEng @MacmanusPhd @ERC_Research Huge congrats @MacmanusPhd - delighted for you! 🥳

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

Congrats @CiaraWalsh_1 🥳 Doing us proud as always! 👩‍🔬 👏🏻
Great to see @ruthkcolbert and @E_D_Aiyegbusi also representing the lab at what looked like a fantastic @INTS2024 meeting in sunny Cambridge ☀️
#TeamSCI @ucddublin @UCDMedicine @UCD_Conway @UCD_Research

[Ciara Walsh @CiaraWalsh_1]

What a wonderful few days at @INTS2024 - great science, great friends, and a poster prize to top it all off 🥹 This prize feels very special as I’m starting to wrap up my PhD, and I’m so grateful to be able to add it to the @DooleyLab collection. Hasta la próxima en Colombia! 🇨🇴

[Dearbhaile Dooley @DooleyLab]

@MargueriteClyne @Ross_O_Carroll Thanks Marguerite 😊