Huge congrats to Andrea Woodcock who submitted her PhD thesis today! Over past 4 years Andrea has investigated the impact of obesity on anti-viral immunity

How much immunity do you need against #COVID19? Our latest, international research from CEPHR_UCD, coordinated by Grace Kenny & Sophie O'Reilly has just been published in Nature Communications. It identifies a ‘Threshold of #Immunity’ to #SARSCoV2. Short🧵 👇1/7

Iron deficiency in people with obesity drives defective natural killer cell mitochondrial fitness and function biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_immuno

New preprint alert 🚨 the final paper from Conor de Barra PhD shows that defects in natural killer cells from people with obesity is linked to low iron biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - thread to follow

A message from me for #WorldObesityDay which is on March 4th. By #AddressingObesityTogether we can end #weightstigma. #obesityisnotachoice

Listen Here▶️rss.com/podcasts/icpob… Our advocates share their lived experiences to raise awareness on this #WorldObesityDay Today while #AddressingObesityTogether we make a call to action for policy makers to improve the lives of people living with obesity. #WODEurope

Huge congratulations to newly mint Dr Conor De Barra on the successful defence of his PhD thesis which investigated the impact of obesity and GLP-1 treatment on NK cells - thanks to IrishResearch for funding Conor and HealthResearchBoard for funding the research

Very pleased to see the WHO showcasing HSE efforts to address obesity - now to get the rest of the funding for the Models of Care

Dr Nidhi Kedia-Mehta, a post-doctoral fellow in Maynooth Biology, has won funding of more than €590,000 for her research into obesity-related cancer under the SFI-IRC Pathway programme. Science Foundation Ireland IrishResearch maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/sf…

Where is the corporate responsibility in this?!

New paper alert!! Out today in The Obesity Society journal (DOI: 10.1002/oby.24126) we provide evidence that GLP-1 therapy induced weight loss is not only due to increased satiety and delayed gastric emptying but also increased visceral adipose metabolic activity (energy expenditure)

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Couldn’t be prouder as two of the O'Shea & Hogan Lab graduate today as doctors from Maynooth University ! Huge congrats Andrea Woodcock and Conor de Barra

Dr Andrew Hogan of Maynooth University’s Maynooth Biology has been awarded funding of over €400,000 for research on targeting iron to boost immune function in obesity and improve patient outcomes. maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/mu…