Meet the team

Dr Aoife Gallagher

Head of Innovation

Tel: +353 1 402 5132

Dr Aoife Gallagher has been Head of Innovation at RCSI since 2014. As Head of the innovation team she is responsible for intellectual property identification, protection and commercialisation through license and spin out creation, along with industry engagement and consultancy.

A registered technology transfer professional (RTTP), Aoife has worked in knowledge transfer for over 10 years, prior to which she worked as head of applications in a startup company.

Aoife has a PhD in Immunology from the University of Edinburgh and a degree in Genetics from Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Seamus Browne

Head of Industry Partnerships

Email: seamusbrowne@rcsi.com

Tel: +353 1 402 8651; +353 87 142 1249 (mobile)

Dr Seamus Browne is Head of Industry Partnerships at RCSI. Since taking up this position in January 2015, Seamus has played a key role in delivering a step-change in RCSI's industry engagement activities. His current focus is on building large scale strategic partnerships with industry aligned to RCSI’s research strengths.

Between 2007-2014, Seamus worked as a technology transfer officer at the University of Limerick (UL) where he led a significant number of high-value industry engagement and research commercialisation agreements. Prior to UL, Seamus completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship. During this time, he founded and managed two start-up companies and has completed an MBA from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.

Dr Derek John

Case Manager

Email: derekjohn@rcsi.com

Tel: +353 1 402 2567

Dr Derek John is the Technology Transfer Case Manager in the Office of Research and Innovation.

A registered technology transfer professional (RTTP), Derek is responsible for the capture, assessment, protection and commercialisation of intellectual property arising from RCSI research.

Derek is a medicinal chemist by training with over 15 years’ industry experience of drug discovery in biotech and big pharma.

Dawn McGlade

Industry Engagement Business Development Manager

Email: dawnmcglade@rcsi.ie

Tel: +353 87 365 2045 (mobile)

Dawn McGlade joined the Office of Research and Innovation as Industry Engagement Business Development Manager in 2021 to further support RCSI researchers engage and collaborate with industry.

Dawn has 20 years’ experience in clinical diagnostics sales and marketing. During this time she was responsible for the business development of a broad portfolio of in-vitro diagnostic analysers and consumables across all pathology disciplines within the HSE and private laboratories. Dawn has an MSc in Molecular Genetics and Immunology and a BSc in Biochemistry.

Dr Conor MacCormack

Spin-out Company Development Manager

Email: conormaccormack@rcsi.ie

Tel: +353 1 402 5119

Dr Conor MacCormack is Spin-Out Company Development Manager and his main focus is to drive commercialisation of research outputs at RCSI through spin-out company formation.

Conor completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin before co-founding Mcor Technologies, and while CEO launched four flagship products during a 10-year period, raising $20 million dollars of investment from both angel and VC investors. He is the co-inventor on 13 worldwide patent families and earned success in many business competitions. During this time, he completed the Accelerated Growth Engagement course at Cambridge Business School and the IPO Ready programme at the Irish Stock Exchange.