Cathal McCarthy

Snapshot of some of the work in my lab!

📢 We're hiring! 📢 UCC seeks a Lecturer in Pharmacology (Permanent Whole-Time) to join the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics as part of UCC Futures - Future Medicines. 👉 ore.ucc.ie #UCC #Pharmacology #AcademicJobs #UCCFutures #FutureMedicines

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 📍 Lecturer in Toxicology at University College Cork 📅 Permanent whole-time post 🌍 Part of UCC Futures - Future Medicines, shaping next-gen medical innovations. #UCC #UCCFutures #FutureMedicines #Toxicology #AcademicJobs #Research ucc.ie/en/futures/fut…

Delighted to be invited by the Korean Diabetes Association to present our work on Visceral Adiposity in Gestational Diabetes at the International Congress of Diabetes and Metabolism in Seoul @hrbireland @PharmacologyUcc

📢 IRC Postgraduate Scholarship applications are now open! Join our department at UCC and explore cutting-edge research 🔬 Don't miss this chance to receive a generous stipend and funding for your studies. 💰 #IRCscholarship #Pharmacology ucc.ie/en/pharmacolog…

Huge congratulations to the BSc Medical & Health Sciences class of 2024 who celebrated the completion of their exams and vivas yesterday @MedHealthSciUCC @UCCMedHealth We are very proud of all of you and wish you all the best in your future studies and careers 👏🎉

Delighted to see this important work published! We characterised the role of immune cell populations in gestational diabetes and provided evidence of subclinical inflammation in GDM women with elevated BMI ⁦@mccarthyfergus⁩ ⁦@hrbireland⁩ track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=tB…

Delighted to see my first review discussing the role of the gut microbiome in pre-eclampsia published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology! An altered gut microbiome in pre-eclampsia: cause or consequence frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

💫Our School of Medicine @UCC has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award! The Athena SWAN Bronze Award recognises the School's commitment to gender equality in higher education. #UCC #CoMH #Athena #Equality #HigherEducation More here: ucc.ie/en/med-health/…

The Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics has scored an impressive 94th in the latest QS rankings, up 5 places from 2023. #Pharmacology #Therapeiutics ucc.ie/en/pharmacolog…

Delighted to celebrate @SampriktaManna PhD graduation today. Congrats on a great PhD Sam 🎉🎉. Very proud supervisors @mccarthyfergus @iplacenta

#WeAreHiring 2 Lecturer positions currently open. Deadline March 19th. Come join us in Cork! 🧠🫀🔬🦠👩‍🔬#pharmacology #neuroscience #ageing #brain #science #UCCFutures #lectureship

An exciting day for @UCC with the launch of #FutureAgeingBrainScience Under this initiative are hiring 2 x Lecturers in Pharmacology

We also showed that the placenta was not mediating this effect on visceral adipocytes in GDM. Huge team effort led by Colm with great help from @MedHealthSciUCC undergrads Isaac and Annie and others. @mccarthyfergus @PharmacologyUcc @hrbireland

Really delighted to see our latest work on Visceral Adiposity in GDM published in JCEM @TheEndoSociety doi.org/10.1210/clinem… In this study we identified that insulin resistance in GDM was associated with a reduction in adipocytes in visceral tissue

📢Two Presidents Awards for Excellence in Teaching awarded to the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Congratulations to Dr @CMcCarthyLab Dr's Frank van Pelt and Gerardene Murphy-Meade ucc.ie/en/pharmacolog…

New publication doi.org/10.1016/j.jri.… where we showed that placental macrophages in GDM have increased mitochondrial ROS with subsequent activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome. Well done to Colm on leading this work. @mccarthyfergus @PharmacologyUcc

🌟 Relive the highlights of the Irish Association of Pharmacologists Annual Meeting! From insightful presentations to groundbreaking research, it was a day to remember. Check out the full recap on our website #IAPConference #Pharmacology pharmacology.ie/ucc-annual-mee…

What-a-day down to Cork 🚂 for #IAP2023 annual meeting at UCC! First conference attended as a brand-new-team, also catching up with old-team-mates (@CMcCarthyLab )! Great opportunities, new roles ahead … !!!

Aaron Barron presenting his PhD research on sex differences in brain development at the second Elevator Pitch session of @UCCMedHealth Futures conference @UCC @AnatNeuroUCC @PharmacologyUcc @OKeeffe_GW @CMcCarthyLab #UCCFutureAgeingBrainScience #UCCFutures

Delighted to be invited to share our work on the metabolic and immune status in GDM at the wonderful @ISImmunolReprod meeting in Hamburg. @hrbireland @PharmacologyUcc