ProfCiara Murphy

Dr Ciara Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine and a Principal Investigator in the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University in Medicine and Health Sciences. Her research programme focuses on the design of advanced biomaterial-based therapeutics for targeted tissue regeneration in complex and metabolically compromised healing environments. A major strand of her work centres on the functionalisation of biomaterials with therapeutic bioinorganic ions to create precision regenerative technologies for the treatment of impaired bone repair, including osteoporotic and inflammatory bone defects. Her group integrates materials science, cell biology and in vivo disease models to develop translational regenerative strategies with defined mechanisms of action.

Dr Murphy has secured over €5 million in competitive research funding to date, including a €2 million European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Award. She has published over 40 international peer-reviewed journal articles with over 6,000 citations. She serves on the Editorial Board of Tissue Engineering: Part A and is an elected member of the TERMIS-EU Council since 2019, currently serving as Secretary of the Executive Committee, as well as a member of the Matrix Biology Ireland (MBI) Council and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) Bioengineering Section Committee.

Her research excellence has been recognised through multiple prestigious awards, including the Anatomical Society New Fellow of the Year Award (2024), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2016), and the Orthopaedic Research Society New Investigator Recognition Award (2014).