DrClaire Conway

Dr. Claire Conway graduated first in her class of Mechanical Engineering in NUI Galway in 2007. Following this she received a scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) to carry out research in Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway. Her doctoral research was in the area computational biomechanics, examining coronary stent implantations. This work resulted in recommendations for the United States’ regulatory agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on how best to simulate a virtual medical device environment, with particular focus on coronary stents.

In 2013, Dr. Conway received an international fellowship as a United States Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellow in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division and in partnership with the FDA. Her primary postdoctoral research examined the clinical consequences of coronary stent fracture. This project investigated medical device failure using a complementary mix of computational, bench-top and animal model techniques.

Dr. Conway joined RCSI’s Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, as a StAR Research lecturer, in January of 2020. Dr. Conway aims to further her research into vascular medical interventional technologies, looking at both short-term and long-term behaviour in devices such as coronary and peripheral stents, and also to look at valvular device performance based on clinical metrics. Her research will also provide insights into regulatory science and research for CE marking and FDA approval processes.