Professor Christine Loscher is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science & Health. She completed her PhD in Immunology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2000 and was awarded a Health Research Board Fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. In 2003 she moved to the Institute of Molecular Medicine at St James Hospital to continue her research and then was appointed to a permanent academic position at DCU in 2005.