Dr. Conor O’Mahony is a Principal Researcher with the Tyndall National Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University, China. He is currently leading a team focussed on the development of Micro Transdermal Interface Platforms (MicroTIPs) – high-value, wearable systems that combine elements of microneedle devices for transdermal delivery and diagnostics, self-awareness and communications capabilities. These ‘smart patches’ interact with the outermost skin layers in a minimally invasive manner, and will blur the lines between implantable medical devices and the current generation of wearable electronics.
Since 2008 he has also been responsible for the management of Tyndall’s microneedle research programme, which fabricates silicon and polymer microneedle-based devices for a wide range of biomedical applications including drug and vaccine delivery, diagnostics, electroporation and physiological signal monitoring.
He has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal papers, given numerous worldwide conference presentations, as well as invited talks in Europe, the US, Japan and China. In total he has filed 16 patent applications, which are the subject of licence agreements with seven separate companies.
He is Chair of the Steering Committee for the International Conference on Microneedles, was Experienced Researcher of the Year 2023 at Tyndall, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2023 he won UCC’s Licence of the Year award for technology transfer to a US medical device company, and was shortlisted for the Irish Medtech Awards. In 2024 his team was a finalist at the EARTO Innovation Awards.
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