James Murphy

 

 

e. murphy.james@itsligo.ie

t. +353 71 9155239

 

Academic History

Graduated with a B.A. (Mod) Hons in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin in 1995. Awarded a Ph.D. following investigation of human skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction in the Dept. of Biology, University College Dublin in 2001, in collaboration with the Dept. of Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.  During this time in UCD, was awarded an Open Postgraduate Scholarship Award from University College Dublin in 1998. Appointed as a Conway Institute post-doctoral researcher by University College Dublin from 2000 to 2001, to investigate the effect of novel methylenedioxymethamphatamine (‘ecstasy’) analogues on serotonergic and noradrenergic pathways in the CNS and PNS. Awarded an Arnold Graves post-doctoral research scholarship from Dublin Institute of Technology from 2002-2004.

He became a PI in 2002 through HEA funding and received his first SFI funding in 2006 through RFP as his research interests progressed into Ionising and Non-Ionising Radiation Biology.

He was awarded a prestigious SFI Stokes Lectureship in IT Sligo that he took up in late 2008 and two of his PhD students transferred along with him from DIT. This enabled him to begin developing his own research group, the Mitochondrial Biology & Radiation Research, that is already established as a key research group in the Institute.

 

 

Research Interests

Current research interests include developing the potential of radiowaves as a stand-alone cancer therapy and identifying mitochondrial predictive biomarkers for future onset of skin cancer as well as determining the role of mitochondria in skin cancer onset and sunlight induced skin ageing and damage.