Group Members

Dr. Dnyaneshwar Garad

Dnyaneshwar was born in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India. He was awarded a B.Sc. Chemistry (2010) and an M.Sc. Organic Chemistry (2012) from University of Pune, India. He joined the laboratory of Dr. Santosh B. Mhaske at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, initially as a Junior Research Fellow and then as a Senior Research Fellow, working in the area of transition metal catalysis, C–H activation and natural product synthesis, for which he earned his Ph. D. degree in March 2019. In June 2019 he joined the Myers Laboratory as an SFI–HRB–Wellcome-funded postdoctoral associate, investigating mechanism of formation of advanced glycation end-products (AGE).

Lee-Ann Keane

Lee-Ann is a native of County Clare and obtained First Class Honours in Chemistry from the University of Limerick, which included a six-month work placement at GSK Cork. Lee-Ann joined the Aldabbagh group in September 2015 on a NUI Galway College of Science Fellowship, allowing her to discover new heterocyclic anti-cancer agents. In December 2017, she joined the Myers group, where she is investigating the mechanism of formation of advanced glycation end-products.

Guillermo Palop Clares

Guillermo was awarded a B.Sc. Chemistry (2016) and an M. Sc. Organic Chemistry (2017) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. He has spent some time working in REPSOL, a Spanish petrochemical multinational, and as a predoctoral researcher at UCM. In September 2018, he joined the Myers Laboratory as a CÚRAM–SFI-funded Ph.D. student investigating the development of reagents and methods for preparing synthetic collagen- and elastin-type materials for regenerative medicine.

Abdulmoez Elkhbuli

Moez, who is of proud Libyan heritage, was born and raised in Ireland. He was awarded a B.Sc. Biopharmaceutical Chemistry (NUI Galway) in 2018. During his undergraduate degree, he spent 6 months on placement with Chemoran, who produce and supply a wide range of bitumen emulsifiers and additives to customers in the road industry. Funded by a College of Science Scholarship, he is currently pursuing Ph.D. research in the Myers Laboratory on the development of bioorthogonal reagents for the study of advanced glycation end-products in the context of diabetes.

Oisín Donnellan

Oisín will be entering his final year of B.Sc. Science (NUI Galway) in September 2019. With a keen interest in organic chemistry, he has joined the Myers Laboratory as a summer student. His project involves the manual solid-phase synthesis of short peptides as substrates for our chemical biology investigations.

Alumni

Sean Curran

Final Year Project Student
NUI Galway
September 2018 - May 2019

Damian Jablonski

Final Year Project Student
NUI Galway
September 2018 - May 2019

Romain Fabre

Erasmus Intern
Université Clermont Auvergne
April 2018 - August 2018

Indrek Kollist

Researcher
NUI Galway
September 2017 - July 2018

Luke Crehan

Final Year Project Student
NUI Galway
September 2017 - May 2018