Daniel J. Kelly

Dr Daniel Kelly is the Professor of Tissue Engineering in the School of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE). He is also one of the founding Principal Investigators of the Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research (AMBER) centre based in Trinity College Dublin. The aim of the TCBE is to promote and facilitate research and education in Bioengineering and related disciplines, and to ensure this research finds its way into the clinic in order to improve patient care. Dr. Kelly leads a large multidisciplinary orthopaedic tissue engineering group based in the Centre. The goal of his lab is to understand how environmental factors regulate the fate of adult stem cells. This research underpins a more translational programme aimed at developing novel biomaterial and mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) based therapies to regenerate damaged and diseased orthopaedic tissues such as articular cartilage and bone.