DrMaeve Mullooly

Dr Maeve Mullooly is a Senior Research Fellow and Health Research Board Emerging Investigator in the School of Population Health, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr Mullooly leads an integrative research programme in the area of breast cancer epidemiology and prevention and is currently Lead Investigator on a Health Research Board Emerging Investigator Award. Prior to joining RCSI, Dr Mullooly was a National Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention Fellow within the Health Research Board-National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. During this time, she pursued postdoctoral research and training within the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute, USA. She conducted her PhD at University College Dublin under the supervision of Professor Michael Joe Duffy, within the Science Foundation Ireland scientific research cluster, Molecular Therapeutics for Cancer Ireland (MTCI). Dr Mullooly’s current research interests include understanding the role of risk factors in breast cancer development, how they influence tumorigenesis and how this influence translates to biological heterogeneity within breast malignancies, which may act as opportunities for clinical intervention. Her research also includes the investigation of pre-cancerous lesions and precision prevention.