TEDxDublin was hosted by Science Gallery at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on September 8th, 2012. http://www.TEDxDublin.com

Luke O'Neill was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, where he leads the Inflammation Research Group. He is also Academic Director of the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. He has a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London and carried out PostDoctoral research at the Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. He has won numerous awards for his research, notably the Royal Irish Academy Medal for Biochemistry, The Irish Society for Immunology medal, the Royal Dublin Society/ Irish Times Boyle medal for Scientific Excellence and the Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year Award 2009. He was elected a member of EMBO in 2005. He is a cofounder and director of Opsona Therapeutics. In 2008 he was appointed Chair of the Immunity and Infection panel of the European Research Council. His research is in the area of the molecular basis to inflammatory diseases, with a particular interest in proinflammatory cytokines and Tolllike receptors. He has published over 200 papers and reviews on his research, in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics and PNAS. He is on the editorial boards of 6 journals, including the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Trends in Immunology. He is also on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, covering Innate Immunity.

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