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» IINDUSTRY FOCUS ‘In certain areas we’re now competitive internationally, and immunology is the big one that we’re involved in. It is staggering what we have achieved there’ 14 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2011
IINDUSTRY FOCUS » FROM RELATIVELY HUMBLE remarkable scientific career, but as we BEGINNINGS, THE LIFE SCIENCES speak it is clear that this ability to communicate with ease and ‘translate’ com- SECTOR TODAY ACCOUNTS FOR SOME 50PC OF ALL EXPORTS plex subjects into plain English may well FROM IRELAND, A FIGURE THAT be one of the keys to his remarkable success in his field. HAS BEEN GROWING BY SOME 6PC EVERY YEAR SINCE 2000. He believes the whole life sciences sector in Ireland has transformed radically LIFE SCIENCES EMPLOYS IN EX- CESS OF 52,000 PEOPLE HERE. in the 20 years since he took up his post in One of Ireland’s leading thinkers, Luke O’Neill, professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, has participated in, and watched, the transformation in the sector since the late Nineties. O’Neill has won numerous awards for his pioneering work on the molecular understanding Trinity in 1993, moving back to Ireland from Cambridge at just 26 years old, and he clearly has great pride in having been part of the revolution. “We’ve made huge progress,” he says. “I was appointed here in 1993 when Ireland was a different country. When I told of innate immunity and my boss in Cambridge I was moving here, inflammatory diseases, and has gained worldwide recognition for his contribution to this field of research. He has received, amongst many others, the Dan Perry Award for Immunology from McGill University, and has been named a Distinguished Lecturer at Oxford University. O’Neill’s easygoing and approachable he said: ‘Are you mad? That’s a backwater! There’s nothing going on there’. And it really was seen that way at the time. There were no areas of science really that were in any way known outside of Ireland, with the exception of pockets like genetics, which was strong here. It was the usual story where most of our best scientists emigrated to get experience on the manner belies a sharp intellect and international stage.” science A life in One of the world's foremost authorities in the innate immune system, PROF LUKE O’NEILL has seen a remarkable transformation in Ireland’s life sciences sector over the past 20 years, as he tells Ann O’Dea Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2011 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 15
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