Immune Dysregulation in Allergy

Christine Loscher, PhD

Associate Dean for Research 
Faculty of Science & Health
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland

Professor Christine Loscher is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science & Health. She completed her PhD in Immunology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in 2000 and was awarded a Health Research Board Fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. In 2003 she moved to the Institute of Molecular Medicine at St James Hospital to continue her research and then was appointed to a permanent academic position at DCU in 2005. Since then, she has established the Immunomodulation Research Group. She currently holds a number of other strategically important positions within the University. She is the Director of the BioAT Programme, a multi-disciplinary training and research programme spanning 6 academic institutions. She led this initiative for DCU on behalf of 6 institutions and has designed, developed, and implemented the programme. She is also the Director of the Nano-Bioanalytical Research Facility, a facility currently being built at DCU which is designed to provide a significant infrastructural enhancement to DCU to facilitate new developments in emerging areas at the interface of the science, engineering, and technology disciplines.