Projects and Funding to date:


Title: Correlating LBA, adaptive evolution and expression at the genome level.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation of Ireland.
Scheme of the grant: Basic research Grant (BRG) (04/BR/B0441).
Year of the award: 2004.
Type of implication: Principal Investigator.

Title: Computational and Biomedical analysis of heat-shock proteins (Hsp): Optimisation of protein function and putative drug targets.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation Ireland.
Scheme of the grant: President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) (04/YI1/M518).
Year of the award: 2004.
Type of implication: Principal Investigator.


Title: Computational analysis of inter- and intra-molecular covariation in key cellular proteins.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation of Ireland.
Scheme of the grant: Undergraduate Research Experience and Knowledge Award (UREKA) (04/YI1/M518ur05).
Year of the award: 2005.
Type of implication: Principal Investigator.


Title: A new method to detect functionally and structurally important regions in proteins.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation of Ireland.
Scheme of the grant: Undergraduate Research Experience and Knowledge Award (UREKA) (04/YI1/M128ur05).
Year of the award: 2005.
Type of implication: Principal Investigator.


Title: A multi-disciplinary approach to unravel biological factors responsible for cell viability.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation of Ireland.
Scheme of the grant: Science Research Assistant Researcher (STAR) (SFI/M518star05).
Year of the award: 2005.
Type of implication: Principal Investigator.


Title: Novolung

Organisation supporting the project: Marie Curie
Scheme of the grant: Marie Curie Actions.
Year awarded: 2005.
Type of implication: Co-principal investigator


Title: Genomic and Proteomic computational analysis of intracellular pathogens and endosymbionts.

Organisation supporting the project: Irish Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.
Scheme of the grant: IRCSET (RS/2005/127).
Year awarded: 2005.
Type of implication: Principal investigator


Title: Improvement of a new method to detect functional domains in proteins: identification of functional domains in heat-shock proteins.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation Ireland
Scheme of the grant: Undergraduate Research Experience and Knowledge Award (UREKA) (04/YI1/M128ur07).
Year awarded: 2007.
Type of implication: Principal investigator


Title: Evolution of HIV-1 Subtype C in Karonga District, Malawi: long-term survival and emergence of drug resistance.

Organisation supporting the project: Science Foundation Ireland
Scheme of the grant: Research Frontiers Programme.
Year awarded: 2007.
Type of implication: Collaborator investigator


Title: In silico design of heat-shock proteins derived synthetic peptides vaccines

Organisation supporting the project: Irish Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.
Scheme of the grant: IRCSET.
Year awarded: 2007.
Type of implication: Principal investigator