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DrMelanie Föcking

Senior Lecturer

Psychiatry

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Psychiatry
  • 01 809 3794 (Work)
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Psychiatry, Beaumont Hospital, DUBLIN, County Dublin, 9, Ireland

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

  • Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of severe mental illness
  • Translational psychiatry and precision medicine
  • Proteomics and biomarker discovery in psychiatry
  • Immune and inflammatory mechanisms in psychosis
  • Complement system and neuroimmune interactions
  • Early psychosis and neurodevelopmental risk
  • Blood-based biomarkers for psychiatric disorders

GRANTS

  • FUNDED PROJECT
    FAVOURITE
    Favourite
    Proteomic Investigation of the Postsynaptic Density in the Brain in Schizophrenia
    NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association1 Jan 2013 - 14 Jul 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gerard C
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI-Fulbright Joint PhD Programme 2026 Cohort
    RCSI1 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2030
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Understanding what Autistic people and their families think and feel about consent and understand what education, information, and communication they need to help navigate consent
    AsIAm1 Mar 2025 - 20 Nov 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Student Selected Projects (SSP) 2025
    RCSI1 Jan 2025 - 31 Aug 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Student Selected Projects (SSP) 2024
    RCSI29 Apr 2024 - 28 Apr 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Nutritional Interventions to Impact the Quality of Life in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
    Health Service Executive26 Oct 2023 - 25 Oct 2024
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Student Selected Projects (SSP) 2023
    RCSI5 Jan 2023 - 30 Sep 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Student Selected Projects (SSP) 2022
    RCSI16 May 2022 - 15 May 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Collaborate Initiative – IPO
    RCSI1 Sep 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
  • GRANT
    HRB Summer Studentship
    Health Research Board (Ireland)7 Jun 2021 - 13 Aug 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Focking M
  • GRANT
    IMPETUS
    Wellcome Trust1 Feb 2021 - 30 Sep 2024
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    SSC Research Programme 2020
    RCSI1 Jan 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
  • GRANT
    The identification of plasma protein markers of antipsychotic drug treatment response in first episode psychosis; a proteomic analysis of baseline plasma samples from the OPTiMiSE and PSYSCAN studies
    Health Research Board (Ireland)1 Nov 2019 - 30 Apr 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Consumable Budget For External Funding Summer Studentships (Hrb, Wellcome Trust) 2019
    RCSI7 May 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    HRB Summer Student Scholarships 2019
    Health Research Board / HRB2 May 2019 - 13 Sep 2019
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    SSC Research Programme 2019
    RCSI1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
  • GRANT
    Biomarker Discovery in Ultra High Risk for Psychosis: towards prediction of psychotic disorder, non-psychotic mental disorders and recovery.
    Health Research Board (Ireland)1 Nov 2017 - 31 Oct 2022
  • GRANT
    The first assessment of multiple histone modifications in brain; an opportunity to identify multiple disease- associated, therapeutically targetable post translational modifications using mass spectrometry
    RCSI Seed Funding1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2017
  • GRANT
    An Inflammatory Biomarker Study of Psychosis: a Longitudinal Study in an At Risk Population
    Health Research Board (Ireland)18 Jan 2016 - 31 May 2020
  • GRANT
    Investigation of the Postsynaptic Density, and of Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis within the Postsynaptic Density, in the Brain in Schizophrenia
    Health Research Board (Ireland)1 Nov 2012 - 1 Sep 2017
  • GRANT
    The investigation of the COMT KO mouse following exposure to cannabis during adolescence; a model for a gene-environment interaction and increased vulnerability to schizophrenia
    Science Foundation Ireland1 Sep 2004 - 31 Aug 2008