Seamas Donnelly is Chief of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.  Recent past President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland (www.aopgbi.com), which is one of Europes leading the medical academic associations and the academic home of interdisciplinary Translational Medicine.  He has been at the forerfront of building close relationships with ASCI and expanding areas of mutual interest to the benefit of members of both organisations. 

He is an international leader in Translational Medicine and his research epitomizes classical bench to bedside on an international stage.  In recognition of this he has been recently awarded an Honorary Professorship in Translational Medicine by the University of Edinburgh. He has successfully competed, as PI, for over €50 million of external funding over recent years.  He is a Fellow and former Treasurer of the Irish Academy of Medical Sciences.  He currently serves as Editor in Chief of the Quarterly Journal of Medicine (QJM).

His research work over recent years has  focused on four key areas:

* Development of novel compounds as anti-inflammatory/anti-cancer therapies.
* Host environmental influences on the regulation of the inflammatory response.
* Genetic profiling guiding disease diagnosis, prognosis and response to therapy.
* Host/Pathogen interactions which predispose towards more aggressive infection.