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Professor Padraic Fallon

Professor of Translational Immunology (Clinical Medicine)

 pfallon@tcd.ie

 3531896 3297

Interim IMM Director (Molecular Medicine Ireland)


Biography

Professor Padraic Fallon heads the Translational Immunology Group. Prof Fallon is Professor of Translational Immunology in the School of Medicine, TCD. Previously, Fallon was a Wellcome Trust Fellow in the University of Cambridge, UK, investigating immune modulation by schistosomes. Since returning to Ireland in 2001, he has continued his research, elucidating underlying mechanisms of aberrant immune function and novel therapeutic strategies for inflammatory diseases. The main diseases addressed are allergic lung inflammation (asthma), skin inflammation (eczema), inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease).,as well as haemophilia . Since 2007, Prof Fallon has generated over €13 million of funding as Principal Investigator supporting research programmes on inflammatory diseases, clinical immunology and infections (helminths and COVID-19). The main diseases addressed are fibrotic disorders, allergic lung and skin inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease and haemophilia. The research on inflammatory diseases is across the human lifespan; from studies on skin diseases in infants, asthma in adults to the metabolic syndrome in the elderly. Prof Fallon has delivered a number of seminal discoveries across the field of immunology. He is an author of ~220 papers peer-reviwed publications in the leading scientifc journals. Fallon and Luke O"Neill, also Trinity College, are the only scientists in Ireland that have been ranked in top 1% of scientists in the world by citations for publications from 2018-2022 in immunology (Clarivate Analytics).

Research Tags

  Allergies   ALLERGY   Animal Models   ANIMAL-MODELS   Asthma   CYTOKINE RESPONSES   DISEASE MODELS   EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS   Helminths   Immunotherapies   INFECTION   Inflammatory Bowel Disease   MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE   Parasites   Transgenic Mice
Runtsch, M.C. and Angiari, S. and Hooftman, A. and Wadhwa, R. and Zhang, Y. and Zheng, Y. and Spina, J.S. and Ruzek, M.C. and Argiriadi, M.A. and McGettrick, A.F. and Mendez, R.S. and Zotta, A. and Peace, C.G. and Walsh, A. and Chirillo, R. and Hams, E. and Fallon, P.G. and Jayamaran, R. and Dua, K. and Brown, A.C. and Kim, R.Y. and Horvat, J.C. and Hansbro, P.M. and Wang, C. and O'Neill, L.A.J., Itaconate and itaconate derivatives target JAK1 to suppress alternative activation of macrophages, Cell Metabolism, 34, (3), 2022, p487-501.e8 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Matarazzo, L. and Hernandez Santana, Y.E. and Walsh, P.T. and Fallon, P.G., The IL-1 cytokine family as custodians of barrier immunity, Cytokine, 154, (155890), 2022, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kevin McCarthy, Eamon Laird, Aisling M. O"Halloran, Cathal Walsh, Martin Healy, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, James B. Walsh, Belinda Hernandez, Padraic Fallon, Anne Molloy, Rose Anne Kenny, Association between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of prevalent type 2 diabetes and incident prediabetes: A prospective cohort study using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), eClinical Medicine, 53, 2022, p101654 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
McElroy AN, Invernizzi R, Laskowska JW, O'Neill A, Doroudian M, Moghoofei M, Mostafaei S, Li F, Przybylski AA, O'Dwyer DN, Bowie AG, Fallon PG, Maher TM, Hogaboam CM, Molyneaux PL, Hirani N, Armstrong ME, Donnelly SC., Candidate Role for Toll-like Receptor 3 L412F Polymorphism and Infection in Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis., American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Schwartz C, Schmidt V, Deinzer A, Hawerkamp HC, Hams E, Bayerlein J, Röger O, Bailer M, Krautz C, El Gendy A, Elshafei M, Heneghan HM, Hogan AE, O'Shea D, Fallon PG., Innate PD-L1 limits T cell-mediated adipose tissue inflammation and ameliorates diet-induced obesity., Science translational medicine, 14, (635), 2022, peabj6879 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Laura O'Doherty, Stuart Hendricken Phelan, Nicole Wood, Sorcha O'Brien, Jacklyn Sui, Cian Mangan, Fergal Howley, Siobhan O'Regan, Noor Adeebah Mohamed Razif, Ciara Conlan, Ruth Argue, Samuel Holohan, Adam Dyer, Fara Salleh, Liam Townsend, Gerard Hughes, Colm Kerr, Derval Reidy, Alberto Sanz, Emma Connolly, Andrea Kelly, Emma Leacy, Conor Reddy, Siobhan Gargan, Eamon Breen, Heike Hawerkamp, Jean Dunne, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Anne Marie McLaughlin, Aideen Long, Orla Shiels, Padraic Fallon, Martina Hennessy, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Ciaran Bannan, Anna Rose Prior, Ana Rakovac, William McCormack, Ross McManus, Seamus Donnelly, Colm Bergin, Mark Little, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Niall Conlon, Study protocol for the St James's Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin Allied Researchers' (STTAR) Bioresource for COVID-19, HRB Open Research, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Leon, G. Hernandez-Santana, Y.E., Irwin, N., Giannoudaki, E., O'Neill, S., Czismadia, I., Gogarty, M., Lee, T.J., Ruane, D., Long, A., Fallon, P.G., Hussey, S. Walsh, P.T. , IL-36 cytokines imprint a colitogenic phenotype on CD4+ T helper cells., Mucosal Immunology, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Kevin McCarthy, Eamon Laird, Aisling M. O'Halloran, Padraic Fallon, Deirdre O'Connor, Román Romero Ortuño, Rose Anne Kenny, An examination of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in older adults in Ireland: Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), PLOS ONE, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Bone R, Fennell BJ, Tam A, Sheldon R, Nocka K, Varghese S, Chang CS, Hawerkamp HC, Yeow A, Saunders SP, Hams E, Walsh PT, Cunningham O, Fallon PG, Discovery and multi-parametric optimization of a high-affinity antibody against Interleukin-25 with neutralizing activity in a mouse model of skin inflammation. , Antibody Therapeutics, 29, 2022, p258 - 267, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Maquet C, Baiwir J, Loos P, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Javaux J, Sandor R, Perin F, Fallon PG, Mack M, Cataldo D, Gillet L, Machiels B., Ly6Chi monocytes balance regulatory and cytotoxic CD4 T cell responses to control virus-induced immunopathology, Science Immunology, 7, 2022, p3240-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Member Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) 2014
Stokes Professorship from Science Foundation Ireland. 2008
Fellow Trinity College Dublin (FTCD) 2009

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My research involves two overlapping translational immunology themes. i. The use of mouse models to study pathogen modulation of human inflammatory diseases. ii. Immune phenotyping of patients, in particular children, with inflammatory diseases such as atopic dermatitis and pulmonary fibrosis. Research aims to elucidate new mechanism of modulation of immunity that can alter inflammation and have therapeutic potential. Collaborative activity involves the phenotyping of new transgenic mice. The main diseases addressed are allergic lung and skin inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease. A growing emphasis is applying extensive expertise in animal models of human inflammatory diseases and general pathophysiology of inflammation to functional analysis of new therapeutic molecules/strategies with clinical collaborators and Pharma.