Dr David O'Connell | Lecturer & Director, Biomolecular & Biomedical Science
University College Dublin

David O’Connell PhD is a lecturer at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at University College Dublin. David is director of MSc. Programmes in Biotherapeutics and is a group leader investigating protein engineering research. David has funded an applied research programme in the lab that focuses on new methods to address pinch points in the biologics pipeline. The lab collaborates with multinational biopharmaceutical companies in Ireland, Switzerland and Sweden and with a number of high throughput biochemistry labs across Europe and the US. David has founded new startup company, BlackLabBio, which is a spin out company from UCD specializing in patented protein engineering technology solutions.