Dr. Éanna Fennell gained his IRC-funded PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UL in 2020. Éanna is currently completing an IRC postdoctoral fellowship in UL on the role of the Epstein-Barr virus in the development of blood cancers. As part of his MSCA global fellowship, Éanna will extend his work on EBV to look at its contribution to the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland for two years before returning to Prof. Paul Murray’s lab at the School of Medicine.
“I am delighted to receive a Marie Skłodowska-Curie global fellowship to study how the Epstein-Barr virus contributes to MS development, an incurable debilitating neurological condition. After completing my bachelors, PhD and postdoctoral research at UL, this fellowship will provide me the opportunity to gain new technical and transferable skills at the University of Zurich, Switzerland before returning to UL. The support of the research office, especially from the faculty of Education and Health Sciences (EHS), was essential to a successful MSCA application.”