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Professor Lisa Connolly

School of Biological Sciences
Lisa Connolly

Professor Lisa Connolly

School of Biological Sciences

The endocrine disruptor group research programme focuses on endocrine disrupting environmental and food based toxins resulting from modern day industrial, agricultural or natural sources and assessing the effects that these contaminants may have on human health. The Connolly team primarily utilise in vitro bioassays for the screening of endocrine disruptors in food and feed and assessing their adverse biological effects in mammalian health. This work also covers horizon scanning for emerging endocrine disruptors, assessing their mode of action and mixture effects. The overall aim of this research is to identify risk and provide information to aid exposure prevention.

Contact info

  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 6668

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Endocrine disruptors
  • Toxicological analysis of endocrine disruptors
  • In vitro bioassay development/analysis of chemicals
  • Chemical food safety
  • Investigating the effects of chemicals on mammalian and environmental health.

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Founder of the Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Belfast Conference Primary Health Sciences
  • Coordinator of the Marie Curie ITN PROTECTED ()
  • Partner EU-H2020 project FREIA ()

Research students

PhD Title Emerging High Content Analysis (HCA) technology for the investigation of endocrine disruptors and their mixtures
Country Pakistan 
   
PhD Title The potential endocrine disrupting effects of UV filters
Country Greece
   
PhD Title Investigating the endocrine disrupting potential and cytotoxic effects of packaging leachates and plasticisers
Country Northern Ireland

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Endocrine disrupting chemicals: impact on obesity/diabetes pathways and intervention via dietary nutrients
Current Position  postdoctoral researcher at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Belfast
   
PhD Title Investigating Persistent Organic Pollutants as Endocrine Disruptors of Androgen Receptor Signaling
Current Position   Postdoctoral researcher at Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Belfast
   
PhD Title Environmental endocrine disruptors: their effects on the environment and health
Current Position  Project Manager, Almac Clinical Services

 


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